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© 2006 by the Estate of Robert Creeley

For acknowledgment of the preface, the epigraphs, and of poems previously published, please see credits, page 639.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Creeley, Robert, 1926–

[Poems]

The collected poems of Robert Creeley.

p. cm.

Includes index.

Contents: [1] 1945–1975—[2] 1975–2005.

ISBN-10 0-520-24158-4 (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-13 978-0-520-24158-9 (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-10 0-520-24159-2 (v. 2 : alk. paper)

ISBN-13 978-0-520-24159-6 (v. 2 : alk. paper)

I. Title.

PS3505.R43A17     2006

811'.54—dc22

2006040498

Manufactured in the United States of America

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