The Sixties Catalogue

25 J u l y 2 0 2 0 Presentation/Association Copy Of Pieces , Warmly Inscribed By Robert Creeley To Allen Ginsburg, With Allen Ginsberg’s Owner Signature 23. (GINSBERG, Allen) CREELEY, Robert. Pieces. New York, 1969. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $4200. Click for more info Secondedition, presentationcopy,warmly inscribedbyRobertCreeley toAllenGinsberg: “for Allen—with all love. Bob,” and with Allen Ginsberg’s dated owner signature. Beat poet Robert Creeley’s groundbreaking third book was originally published by Black Sparrow Press in a small edition of only 426 copies, but this second edition followed the next year. This scarce copy is inscribed by Creeley to Allen Ginsberg and bears Ginsberg’s dated owner signature. Robert Creeley was already an accomplished poet and author when he met Allen Ginsberg. After losing his job as a professor, he set out for San Francisco “where he felt an instant affinity with the Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac” (ANB). When asked about each other, the men had only good things to say. According to Ginsberg, “Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of his predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky and Olson and provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness.” “for Allen—with all love.”