News at Eleven: It is no disparagement of the work

to consider to what extent the loss of an eye made [Robert] Creeley a particular, even unique, poet--one who had to turn his head to scan the whole view, and so one for whom perception was always exaggeratedly temporal; one who could apprehend at once clarity and occlusion, and who was particularly aware of the sources and resonances of sound. His "one" was both universal and the unique quality of his I/eye.

from The Nation: A Human Pledge

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