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Robert Creeley’s ‘In Poems’

For Creeley, poetry is a revelation or a record of reality, which is always one’s own reality a person experiences in his primary condition of life. It is in poems that one arrives at the condition, and reality is the specific content he experiences moment by moment while he is writing a poem in particular circumstances. To write a poem, then, means to recognize and follow its activities when they occur in the process of writing. In this light, the poet is just “given to write poems.” He refuses to exert external control over his poems, a refusal that involves himself in the generalizing mechanism of representation. Rather, he is in poems, in their activities, thereby directly experiencing and recording his literal fact of being. Rhythm is an aspect of reality as the pattern of the sound-movements of words, which arises from the physical and physiological conditions of the poet. Meaning, the other aspect of poetry, is not semantic meaning but emotion, which can be equated with material things as long as it remains in its context. Rhythm is determined in part by breath, the physiological condition, which is in turn shaped by emotion.