Cultural Writing. Biography and memoir. With this short text, Mark Jay Mirsky offers a personal eulogy to the poet and author Robert Creeley, who passed away in 2005. Mirsky goes beyond a simple chronology of two persons interacting and, instead, recalls some of the more poignant and formative moments from their emergent friendship. At the same time, Mirsky assays his own artistic debt to the influence of Creeley's writing and conversation. What develops from these memories, intimate and otherwise, is a portrait of one of American poetry's most respected voices. Mirsky is the founder and editor of Fiction Magazine and the author of the books THE RED ADAM; Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah; My Search for the Messiah: Studies and Wanderings in Israel and America; Blue Hill Avenue: A Novel; and The Absent Shakespeare.
Author City: New York, NY USA