Poem by the Charles River
Robin Blaser, “Poem by the Charles River” from The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser. Copyright © 2006 by Robin Blaser. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.
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Poet Robin Blaser 1925–2009
POET’S REGION Canada
Subjects Living, Death, Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Animals, The Body
Biography
Born in Denver and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho, poet, editor, and essayist Robin Blaser was educated at the University of California-Berkeley. With poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, he helped spark the Berkeley Poetry Renaissance in the 1940s that preceded the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, Blaser met Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, with whom he later worked closely. Miriam Nichols, editor . . .
Poems by Robin Blaser
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SUBJECT Living, Death, Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Animals, The Body
POET’S REGION Canada
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