Talking about Collaborations: Personal Memories and a Critical Study of Robert Creeley’s Collaboration with Artist Arthur Okamura
Abstract
I first met Robert Creeley in 2004 on a hot October Indian summer afternoon. Walking through Brown University’s elegant campus, heading to Creeley’s office, I experienced a bizarre feeling of both fear and excitement. I was about to meet the “subject” of my doctoral dissertation. Someone who, up to that moment, had only been a picture in a book and a voice recorded on a file, downloaded from the Internet.
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