Creeley as Therapy

He ran an ad in the health section

of the local weekly

“Cure Mental Crises with Creeley.”

And you know 12 people

paid $175 for an 8-week workshop!

Enough to put in a new shower stall!

He sat them at ease

in a circle of chairs

each of them holding

The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975-2005

and then they opened it up at random

                                                 read aloud

                                                & discussed

                                              the curative feel

of the words

as they would relate

to the reader’s particular crisis.… Leer más