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Also Known As Robert White Creeley
Born May 21, 1926 • Arlington • Massachusetts
Died March 30, 2005 (aged 78) • Odessa • Texas
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1999)
Movement / Style Black Mountain poets

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