Irving Layton and Robert Creeley

Download or read book Irving Layton and Robert Creeley written by Irving Layton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events covered by the letters collected here start with Robert Creeley's discovery of Irving Layton and focus on the turbulent circumstances surrounding the publication (by Creeley's Divers Press in Majorca) of In the Midst of My Fever, Layton's first book of poems not published at his own expense and the one that established him as a major poet. Irving Layton and Robert Creeley also recounts the cementing of avant-garde contacts between Canada and the United States through magazines such as Origin, Contact, and CIV/n.