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Robert Creeley
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Once known primarily for his association with the group called the "Black Mountain Poets," at the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century. His poetry is noted for both its concision and emotional power. Albert Mobilio, writing in the Voice Literary Supplement, observed: "Creeley has shaped his own audience. The much imitated, often diluted minimalism, the compression of emotion into verse in which scarcely a syllable is wasted, has decisively marked a generation of poets."
Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1926. When his father died in 1930, he was raised by his mother and sister in Acton. An accident when he was four left him blind in one eye. He attended Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on a scholarship, and his articles and stories appeared regularly in the school's literary magazine. Creeley was admitted to Harvard in 1943, but admitted later that he had felt discouraged by "the sardonic stance of my elders." He left Harvard to serve in the American Field Service in 1944 and 1945, and drove an ambulance in India and South-East Asia. Creeley returned to Harvard after the war, though he never graduated. He later received an MA from the University of New Mexico. He began corresponding with William Carlos Williams, who seems to have put him in touch with Charles Olson, a poet who was to have a substantial influence on the direction of his future work. Excited especially by Olson's ideas about literature, Creeley began to develop a distinctive and unique poetic style.
Throughout the 1950s, Creeley was associated with the "Black Mountain Poets," a group of writers including Denise Levertov, Ed Dorn, Fielding Dawson, and others who had some connection with Black Mountain College, an experimental, communal college in North Carolina that was a haven for many innovative writers and artists of the period. Creeley edited the Black Mountain Review and developed a close and lasting relationship with Olson, who was the rector of the college. The two engaged in a lengthy, intensive correspondence about literary matters that has been collected and published in ten volumes as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence (Volume 1, 1980). Olson and Creeley together developed the concept of "projective verse," a kind of poetry that abandoned traditional forms in favor of a freely constructed verse that took shape as the process of composing it was underway. Olson called this process "composition by field," and his famous essay on the subject, "Projective Verse," was as important for the poets of the emerging generation as T. S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" was to the poets of the previous generation. Olson credited Creeley with formulating one of the basic principles of this new poetry: the idea that "form is never more than an extension of content."
Creeley was a leader in the generational shift that veered away from history and tradition as primary poetic sources and gave new prominence to the ongoing experiences of an individual's life. Because of this emphasis, the major events of his life loom large in his literary work. Creeley's marriage to Ann MacKinnon ended in divorce in 1955. The breakup of that relationship is chronicled in fictional form in his only novel, The Island (1963), which drew upon his experiences on the island of Mallorca, off the coast of Spain, where he lived with MacKinnon and their three children in 1953 and 1954. After the divorce Creeley returned to Black Mountain College for a brief time before moving west. He was in San Francisco during the flowering of the "San Francisco Poetry Renaissance" and became associated for a time with the writers of the Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, and others. His work appeared in the influential anthology The New American Poetry: 1945-1960 (1960), edited by Donald Allen.
In 1956 Creeley accepted a teaching position at a boys' school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he met his second wife, Bobbie Louise Hall. Though Creeley published poetry and fiction throughout the 1950s and 1960s and had even established his own imprint, the Divers Press, in 1952, his work did not receive important national recognition until Scribner published his first major collection, For Love: Poems 1950-1960, in 1962. This book collected work that he had been issuing in small editions and magazines during the previous decade. When For Love debuted, Mobilio wrote, "it was recognized at once as a pivotal contribution to the alternative poetics reshaping the American tradition. . . . The muted, delicately contrived lyrics . . . were personal and self-contained; while they drew their life from the everyday, their techniques of dislocation sprang from the mind's naturally stumbled syntax."
The very first poem in For Love, "Hart Crane," with its unorthodox, Williams-like line breaks, its nearly hidden internal rhymes, and its subtle assonance and sibilance, announces the Creeley style—a style defined by an intense concentration on the sounds and rhythms of language as well as the placement of the words on the page. In a piece for the London Review of Books, Stephen Burt wrote that "We recognise Creeley's poems first by what they leave out: he uses few long or rare words, no regular metres and almost no metaphors," and, noting how little that style changed, "Creeley kept for five decades a way of writing whose markers include parsimonious diction, strong enjambment, two to four-line stanzas and occasional rhyme. What changed over his career was not his language but the use he made of it, the attitudes and goals around which the small, clear crystals of his verse might form."
Though For Love and Words (1967) both received critical acclaim, by the late '60s Creeley was already abandoning the spare style which had made him famous. In Pieces, A Day Book, Thirty Things, and Hello: A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976, all published between 1968 and 1978, Creeley attempts to break down the concept of a "single poem" by offering his readers sequential, associated fragments of poems with indeterminate beginnings and endings. All of these works are energized by the same heightened attention to the present that characterizes Creeley's earlier work, and many of the poems in Hello (1976) refer to the last days of Creeley's relationship with his second wife, Bobbie. That marriage ended in divorce in 1976, the same year he met Penelope Highton, his third wife, while traveling in New Zealand. For all of Creeley's experimentation, he has always been in some ways an exceedingly domestic poet; his mother, children, wives, and close friends are the subjects of his best work. Because Creeley's second marriage lasted nearly twenty years, the sense of a major chunk of his life drifting away from him is very strong in Hello. Creeley here conveys the traumatic emotional state that almost always accompanies the breakup of long-term relationships.
Creeley's next major collection, Later (1979), is characterized by a greater emphasis on memory, a new sense of life's discrete phases, and an intense preoccupation with aging. In "Myself," the first poem in Later, he writes: "I want, if older, / still to know / why, human, men / and women are / so torn, so lost / why hopes cannot / find a better world / than this." This futile but deeply human quest captures the spirit of Creeley's later work. It embodies a commonly shared realization: one becomes older but still knows very little about essential aspects of life, particularly the mysteries of human relationships. The ten-part title poem was written over a period of ten days in September of 1977. The poem begins by evoking lost youth—youth, in later life, can only become a palpable part of the present through the power of memory—and presents a kaleidoscopic view of Creeley's life, both past and present: a lost childhood dog and memories of his mother, friends and neighbors are all mapped onto the poetry he is composing in an attic room in Buffalo, September, 1977.
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 was published in 1982. The poems Creeley wrote in the last decades of his life increasingly remember and reflect on memory and the past. As Stephen Burt described them: "The later poems are more traditional than their predecessors, in their sounds and in their goals. They rhyme more often. They have recognisable closure. Few are so short as to pose conceptual puzzles about what a poem is. When they are bad they are prosy or repetitive, not insubstantial or nonsensical. They never sound like Olson (much less like Ginsberg), and at their best they recall Thomas Hardy: they are, in the end, mostly poems of old age." Life and Death (1998) examines the poet's increasing age and mortality. Reviewing the book, Forrest Gander acknowledged Creeley's lasting importance to American poetry: "Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind's concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed . . . Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word."
Creeley was a prolific poet, even late in life: the volumes after Life and Death came in regular succession, including Loops: Ten Poems (1995); Ligeia: A Libretto (1996); So There: Poems 1976-83 (1998); En Famille: A Poem by Robert Creeley (1999); Thinking(2000); Just In Time: Poems, 1984-1994 (2001); and If I Were Writing This (2003). R. D. Pohl in the Buffalo News, praised If I Were Writing This, declaring that it "contains some of the starkest and most memorable poems Creeley has written." Pohl and a Publishers Weekly reviewer both saw If I Were Writing This as a companion volume to Life and Death, each of them "composed primarily of poems dedicated to family and friends (dead and living), collaborative verses, and such poems as 'For You' in which intimacy of tone coincides with cryptic, lyrical abstraction." Pohl noted that If I Were Writing This is the first major volume to appear since Creeley joined the ranks of such poetic giants as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery by winning the prestigious Yale University Bollingen Prize in 1999. He continued: "The fragility of our common experience in language and the world resonates through every line of Creeley's recent work."
Creeley also wrote a considerable amount of prose and was editor of a number of volumes, including Best American Poetry 2002. Creeley's prose includes a novel, essays, and short stories, as well as a play, collected letters, and an autobiography, published in 1990. Creeley taught for over 30 years at the State University of New York-Buffalo, helping to turn its English and Poetics program into one of the most famous havens for avant-garde writing in the world. In 2003 he was appointed distinguished professor of English at Brown University. In an appreciation of Creeley written for the Poetry Project Newsletter, Peter Gizzi said, "He was a devoted teacher, undeterred by the persistent critique of the role of poets in universities. Conversely, on the Black Mountain model, he was more interested in bending institutions to support poetry. That was one of his labors." Also noted for his enthusiastic support of other poets, Robert Creeley served as a mentor and friend to many, many poets. Charles Bernstein, a colleague of Creeley's at SUNY-Buffalo wrote in the Brooklyn Rail: "So many poets had an intimate relation with Creeley; he had a way of connecting with each of us in particular and, through that connection with him, to a company of poets in the U.S. and around the world."Creeley died in 2005 in Odessa, Texas, of complications resulting from lung disease. He had been completing a residency for the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
Don Byrd quoted him in Contemporary Poets: "I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible." Asked about "good" poems, Creeley, who had written in the introduction to Best American Poetry 2002 that the poem is "that place we are finally safe in" where "understanding is not a requirement. You don't have to know why. Being there is the one requirement," responded, "If one only wrote 'good' poems, what a dreary world it would be."
(Biography updated by the Poetry Foundation, 2009)
- Le Fou, Golden Goose Press, 1952.
- The Kind of Act Of, Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1953.
- The Immoral Proposition, Jonathan Williams, 1953.
- A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verse (published anonymously), Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1954.
- All That Is Lovely in Men, Jonathan Williams (Asheville, NC), 1955.
- (With others) Ferrin and Others, Gerhardt (Germany), 1955.
- If You, Porpoise Bookshop (San Francisco, CA), 1956.
- The Whip, Migrant Books, 1957.
- A Form of Women, Jargon Books (New York, NY), 1959.
- For Love: Poems, 1950-1960, Scribner (New York, NY), 1962.
- Distance, Terrence Williams, 1964.
- Mister Blue, Insel-Verlag, 1964.
- Two Poems, Oyez, 1964.
- Hi There!, Finial Press, 1965.
- Words (eight poems), Perishable Press, 1965.
- Poems, 1950-1965, Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1966.
- About Women, Gemini, 1966.
- For Joel, Perishable Press, 1966.
- A Sight, Cape Coliard Press, 1967.
- Words (eighty-four poems), Scribner (New York, NY), 1967.
- Robert Creeley Reads (with recording), Turret Books, 1967.
- The Finger, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1968, enlarged edition published as The Finger Poems, 1966-1969, Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1970.
- 5 Numbers (five poems), Poets Press (New York, NY), 1968, published as Numbers (text in English and German), translation by Klaus Reichert, Galerie Schmela (Dusseldorf, Germany), 1968.
- The Charm: Early and Collected Poems, Perishable Press, 1968, expanded edition published as The Charm, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1969.
- Divisions and Other Early Poems, Perishable Press, 1968.
- Pieces (fourteen poems), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1968.
- The Boy (poem poster), Gallery Upstairs Press, 1968.
- Mazatlan: Sea, Poets Press (New York, NY), 1969.
- Pieces (seventy-two poems), Scribner (New York, NY), 1969.
- Hero, Indianakatz (New York, NY), 1969.
- A Wall, Bouwerie Editions (New York, NY), 1969.
- For Betsy and Tom, Alternative Press, 1970.
- For Benny and Sabrina, Samuel Charters, 1970.
- America, Press of the Black Flag, 1970.
- In London, Angel Hair Books, 1970.
- Christmas: May 10, 1970, Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), 1970.
- St. Martin's, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1971.
- 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0, drawings by Arthur Okamura, Shambhala (New York, NY), 1971.
- Sea, Cranium Press, 1971.
- For the Graduation, Cranium Press, 1971.
- Change, Hermes Free Press, 1972.
- One Day after Another, Alternative Press, 1972.
- For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, 8 April 1887-7 October 1972 (limited edition), Sceptre Press (London, England), 1973.
- His Idea, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1973.
- The Class of '47, Bouwerie Editions (New York, NY), 1973.
- Kitchen, Wine Press, 1973.
- Sitting Here, University of Connecticut Library, 1974.
- Thirty Things, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1974.
- Backwards, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1975.
- Hello, Hawk Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1976, expanded edition published as Hello: A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976, New Directions (New York, NY), 1978.
- Away, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1976.
- Presences (also see below), Scribner (New York, NY), 1976.
- Selected Poems, Scribner (New York, NY), 1976, revised edition, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
- Myself, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1977.
- Later, Toothpaste (West Branch, IA), 1978, expanded edition, New Directions (New York, NY), 1979.
- Desultory Days, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1979.
- Corn Close, Sceptre Press (London, England), 1980.
- Mother As Voice, Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1981.
- The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1982.
- Echoes, Toothpaste (West Branch, IA), 1982, New Directions (New York, NY), 1994.
- Going On: Selected Poems, 1958-1980, Dutton (New York, NY), 1983.
- Mirrors, New Directions (New York, NY), 1983.
- A Calendar: Twelve Poems, Coffee House Press (West Branch, IA), 1984.
- The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley, Scribner (New York, NY), 1984.
- Memories, Pig Press, 1984.
- Memory Gardens, New Directions (New York, NY), 1986.
- The Company, Burning Deck, 1988.
- Window, edited by Richard Blevins, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), 1988.
- (With Libby Larsen) A Creeley Collection: For Mixed Voices, Solo Tenor, Flute, Percussion, and Piano, E. C. Schirmer, 1989.
- (With Francesco Clemente) 64 Pastels, Bruno Bischofberger, 1989.
- Places, Shuffaloff Press, 1990.
- Windows, New Directions (New York, NY), 1990.
- Have a Heart, Limberlost Press, 1990.
- Selected Poems, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
- The Old Days, Ambrosia Press, 1991.
- Gnomic Verses, Zasterle Press, 1991.
- A Poetry Anthology, Edmundson Art Foundation, 1992.
- Life and Death, Grenfell Press, 1993, New Directions (New York, NY), 1998.
- Loops: Ten Poems, Nadja, 1995.
- Ligeia: A Libretto, Granary Books, 1996.
- So There: Poems 1976-83, New Directions (New York, NY), 1998.
- En Famille: A Poem by Robert Creeley, Granary Books, 1999.
- (With Alex Katz) Edges, Peter Blum, 1999.
- (With Max Gimblett and Alan Loney) The Dogs of Auckland, Holloway Press, 1998.
- (With John Millei) Personal: Poems, Peter Koch, 1998.
- (With Daisy DeCapite) Cambridge, Mass 1944, Boog Literature, 2000.
- Thinking, Z Press, 2000.
- Clemente's Images, Backwoods Broadsides, 2000.
- For Friends, Drive He Sd Books, 2000.
- (With Archie Rand, illustrations) Drawn and Quartered, Distributed Art Publishers, 2001.
- Just In Time: Poems, 1984-1994, New Directions (New York, NY), 2001.
- Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975-2005, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2006.
- Selected Poems 1945-2005, edited by Benjamin Friedlander, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2008.
- Charles Olson, Mayan Letters, Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1953.
- (With Donald M. Allen, and contributor) New American Story, Grove (New York, NY), 1965, reprinted 2001.
- (And author of introduction) Charles Olson, Selected Writings, New Directions (New York, NY), 1966.
- (With Donald Allen, and contributor) The New Writing in the U.S.A., Penguin (New York, NY), 1967.
- Whitman: Selected Poems, Penguin (New York, NY), 1973.
- (And contributor) The Essential Burns, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1989.
- Tim Prythero, Peters Corporation, 1990.
- Olson, Selected Poems, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1993.
- (With David Lehman) The Best American Poetry 2002, Scribner (New York, NY), 2002.
- The Gold Diggers (short stories), Divers Press (Mallorca, Spain), 1954, expanded edition published as The Gold Diggers and Other Stories, J. Calder, 1965.
- The Island (novel), Scribner (New York, NY), 1963.
- A Day Book (poems and prose), Scribner (New York, NY), 1972.
- Mabel: A Story, and Other Prose (includes A Day Book and Presences), Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1976.
- Collected Prose, Marion Boyars (New York, NY), 1984, corrected edition, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1988, Dalkey Archive Press (Chicago, IL), 2001.
- An American Sense (essay), Sigma Press, 1965.
- A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays, edited by Donald M. Allen, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1970.
- Notebook, Bouwerie Editions (New York, NY), 1972.
- A Sense of Measure (essays), Calder & Boyars (London, England), 1972.
- Inside Out (lecture), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
- The Creative (lecture), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1973.
- Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1979.
- Collected Essays, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1989.
- Autobiography, Hanuman Books, 1990.
- Day Book of a Virtual Poet (essays), Spuyten Duyvil (New York, NY), 1998.
- Listen (play; produced in London, 1972), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1972.
- Contexts of Poetry: Interviews, 1961-1971, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1973.
- Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, ten volumes, edited by George F. Butterick, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1980-96.
- Jane Hammond, Exit Art, 1989.
- Irving Layton and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, edited by Ekbert Faas and Sabrina Reed, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1990.
- Tales out of School: Selected Interviews, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1993.
- Robert Creeley, reading with jazz musicians David Cast, Chris Massey, Steve Swallow, and David Torn accompanying, Cuneiform Records, 1998.
- (Author of foreword) The Turning, Hilda Morley, Asphodel Press, 1998.
- (With Elizabeth Licata and Amy Cappellazzo) In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations (from a traveling art show), University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1999.
- (Contributor; with others) Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties, Rizzoli International (New York, NY), 2000.
Work represented in numerous anthologies, including The New American Poetry: 1945-1960, edited by Donald Allen, Grove (New York, NY), 1960; A Controversy of Poets, edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1965; Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, Norton (New York, NY), 1973; The New Oxford Book of American Verse, edited by Richard Ellmann, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1976; and Poets' Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Andre, Unmuzzled Ox Press, 1980. Contributor to literary periodicals, including Paris Review, Nation, Black Mountain Review, Origin, Yugen, and Big Table. Founder and editor, Black Mountain Review, 1954-57; advisory editor, Sagetrieb, 1983—; advisory editor, American Book Review, 1983—; contributing editor, Formations, 1984—; and advisory editor, New York Quarterly, 1984—. The major collection of Creeley's manuscripts and correspondence is housed in Special Collections, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Other collections include the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (correspondence with William Carlos Williams), Humanities Research Center, University of Texas Libraries, Austin (correspondence with Ezra Pound), John M. Olin Library, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (manuscripts and correspondence predating 1965), Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington (manuscripts and correspondence with Cid Corman), Simon Fraser University Library, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (correspondence with Richard Emerson), and University of Connecticut Library, Storrs (correspondence with Charles Olson).
Further Readings
- Allen, Donald M., editor, Robert Creeley, Contexts of Poetry: Interviews, 1961-1971, Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco, CA), 1973.
- Altieri, Charles, Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1984.
- Butterick, George F., editor, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Rosa, CA), 1980.
- Clark, Tom, Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography, New Directions (New York, NY), 1993.
- Conniff, Brian, The Lyric and Modern Poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1988.
- Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 10, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1989.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 8, 1978, Volume 11, 1979, Volume 15, 1980, Volume 36, 1986.
- Contemporary Poets, 5th edition, edited by Tracy Chevalier, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1991.
- Corman, Cid, editor, The Gist of Origin, Viking (New York, NY), 1975.
- Creeley, Robert, Hello, Hawk Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1978.
- Creeley, Robert, Later, Toothpaste (West Branch, IA), 1978.
- Creeley, Robert, If I Were Writing This, New Directions (New York, NY), 2003.
- Edelberg, Cynthia Dubin, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1978.
- Faas, Ekbert, and Sabrina Reed, editors, Irving Layton and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, 1953-1978, McGill-Queen's University Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1990.
- Faas, Ekbert, and Maria Trombaco, Robert Creeley: A Biography, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 2001.
- Ford, Arthur L., Robert Creeley, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1978.
- Foster, Edward Halsey, Understanding the Black Mountain Poets, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1995.
- Fox, Willard, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1989.
- Fredman, Stephen, Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1983.
- Giger, Esther, and Agnieszka Salska, editors, Freedom and Form: Essays in Contemporary American Poetry. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego (Lódz, Poland), 1998.
- Gwynn, R. S., editor, New Expansive Poetry: Theory, Criticism, History, Story Line (Ashland, OR), 1999.
- Novik, Mary, Robert Creeley: An Inventory, 1945-1970, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1973.
- Oberg, Arthur, Modern American Lyric: Lowell, Berryman, Creeley, and Plath, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1977.
- Paul, Sherman, The Lost America of Love: Rereading Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1981.
- Rifkin, Libbie, Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2000.
- Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, Blackwell (Oxford, England), 2001.
- Sheffler, Ronald Anthony, The Development of Robert Creeley's Poetry, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), 1971.
- Tallman, Allen and Warren, editors, The Poetics of the New American Poetry, Grove (New York, NY), 1973.
- Tallman, Warren, Three Essays on Creeley, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1973.
- Terrell, Carroll F., Robert Creeley: The Poet's Workshop, University of Maine Press (Orono, ME), 1984.
- Von Hallberg, Robert, American Poetry and Culture, 1945-80, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1985.
- Wilson, John, editor, Robert Creeley's Life and Work: A Sense of Increment, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1987.
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- Critique, spring, 1964.
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- Southwest Review, winter, 1964.
- Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 2001-2002, p. 49.
- Time, July 12, 1971.
- Times Literary Supplement, March 16, 1967; August 7, 1970; November 12, 1970; December 11, 1970; May 20, 1977; May 30, 1980; February 20, 1981; November 4, 1983; May 10, 1991, p. 22.
- Village Voice, October 22, 1958; December 10, 1979; November 25, 1981.
- Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1968; winter, 1972; spring, 1973.
- Voice Literary Supplement, September, 1991, p. 14.
- Washington Post Book World, August 11, 1991, p. 13.
- Western Humanities Review, spring, 1970.
- Winstom-Salem Journal, March 5, 2000, p. E1.
- World Literature Today, autumn, 1984; summer, 1992; spring, 1995.
- Yale Review, October, 1962; December, 1969; spring, 1970; April, 1999, p. 175.
- Academy of American Poets: Poetry Exhibit, http://www.poets.org/ (March 8, 2004).
- Cortland Review, http://www.cortlandreview.com/ (April, 1998), interview with Creeley.
- Levity, http://www.levity.com/ (March 8, 2004).
- Providence Phoenix Book Reviews, http://www.providencephoenix.com/ (March 26-April 2, 1998), interview with Creeley.
- Robert Creeley Home Page, http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/creeley/ (April 26, 2000).
- University of Illinois, Department of English, http://www.english.uiuc.edu/ (March 8, 2004).
- Creeley, Robert, Autobiography, Hanuman Books, 1990.
- Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2005, p. B9.
- New York Times, April 1, 2005, p. C13.
- Times (London, England), April 1, 2005, p. 62.
- Washington Post, April 1, 2005, p. B6.
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Poems By Robert Creeley
- After Frost
- Air: "The Love of a Woman"
- America
- The Answer
- The Chance
- Chicago
- The Circle
- The Cracks
- Credo
- Dimensions
- The Door (II)
- The Door
- The Dream
- The End
- Enough
- The Eye
- The First Time
- The Flower
- For Fear
- For Love
- For No Clear Reason
- The Friends
- The Gesture
- A Gift of Great Value
- Gnomic Verses
- Going to Bed
- Hello
- Helsinki Window
- The Herd
- Here
- The Hill
- I Keep to Myself Such Measures
- I Know a Man
- I'll Be Here
- Inside My Head
- Intervals
- The Invitation
- Jack's Blues
- The Language
- The Language
- A Marriage
- The Measure
- The Mechanic
- Mr. Warner
- My Love
- Names
- The Names
- A Night Sky
- Of Years
- One Day
- Out of Sight
- The Pattern
- Place
- The Pool
- A Prayer
- A Prayer
- The Province
- The Puritan Ethos
- Quick-Step
- The Rain
- The Rain
- A Reason
- The Rescue
- The Rescue
- The Rhythm
- The Rose
- Self-Portrait
- The Shame
- Sing Song
- So Big
- Somewhere
- Song ("How simply/for another...")
- Song ("I wouldn't/embarrass you...")
- Song ("What I took in my hand...")
- The Statue
- To Bobbie
- A Token
- The Tunnel
- Variations
- Walking
- Walls
- The Warning
- Water
- The Whip
- A Wicker Basket
- The Window
- The Window
- The Woman
- The Woman
- The World
- Yesterdays
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Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire.
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Archival recordings of the poet Robert Creeley, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1961, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Looking back at Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man"
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Once known primarily for his association with the group called the "Black Mountain Poets," at the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century. His poetry is noted for both its concision and emotional power. Albert Mobilio, writing in the Voice Literary Supplement, observed: "Creeley has shaped his own audience. The much imitated, often diluted minimalism, the compression of emotion into verse in which scarcely a syllable is wasted, has decisively marked a generation of poets."
Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1926. When his father died in 1930, he was raised by his mother and sister in Acton. An accident when he was four left him blind in one eye. He attended Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on a scholarship, and his articles and stories appeared regularly in the school's literary...


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Hello all.
Well after many years I have bought my first BMW.
I've always wanted one but somehow never got round to it. Mainly I've had Vauxhalls ("grooooaaan" I hear you all say....!) and my last car was a Civic Type R GT. A bonkers car but I got sick of it because. It. Was. SO. Stiff!!!
So - I've treated myself to a 335i coupe. I love it!! I've had "Carla" two weeks and adore it! I was looking at E46 M3's but went for this over it because it isn't that much slower but seemed a lot easier to live with. It's the auto with the steering wheel paddle shift.
She's nice and tidy - even more so now I've got my cleaning OCD hands on her! Next steps will be changing little bits and bobs subtly - but that's about it. She's by far the fastest car I've ever had (Type R - forget it!) so no performance stuff planned.....
So - a very happy man.

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Very comfortable and clean! Bathroom a little tight but I would definitely stay there again! Staff was friendly and polite and the location was perfect a 2 minute walk from the train station. I can't wait to get back!
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Wonderful surprise in Florence. This hotel was absolutely perfect for us (we were 3 adults). The location just a 5 minute walk (or less) from the train station, the breakfast excellent, the room was just perfect, the bathroom a little bit small but manageable. The staff was absolutely polite and friendly, they made us feel welcome from the start. Definitely recommend this hotel 110%, you won't be disappointed.
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+ "It is located just across the street from the train station. The supermarket is across from the hotel. Plenty of the restaurants are nearby. The main attractions and the shopping shops are in the walking distance. The room is clean and good size for four. The staffs are helpful and friendly." - None
Kraisith - January 2016
I really enjoyed by experience at Hotel Cosimo de Medici. The hotel is located so close to the train station, that was very convenient! There was no noise in my room as people stipulated before. The rooms are pretty updated, modern design, boutique feel, bed was very comfortable and the staff were all very nice! This was one of the better hotels I stayed during my 10-day trip across Italy. As a single female traveler, I felt very safe staying here. It was also very good value for money for me. I will highly recommend this hotel.
Anonymous - May 2016
The hotel staff is extremely friendly and the rooms are very clean and comfortable. The hotel is a five minute walk from the train station and 15 minute walk to all the sites and museums. Great location; clean rooms- small with upgraded bathrooms. The staff is extraordinary! Great breakfast. Overall outstanding value. It would be my first choice when I return to Florence.
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Everything was great! The best 3star hotel anyone could book in Florence! In the historical centre, next to the train station, great breakfast and veeeery veeeery clean rooms! Not to mention the kind and alwats helpful staff!!
Eleftheria - March 2016
This was a very pleasant stay for 5 nights while attending a conference. I couldn't fault the room and bathroom cleanliness and the attentiveness by the staff that made the room each day. A really nice shower! Probably one of the best I've ever had. And a comfy bed - I had no trouble sleeping through each of the nights. The air con was very welcome in the outside night time temp of 25-29 degrees. Breakfast was terrific. A buffet containing something delicious for every taste. And very nice coffee, made to your choosing each morning. There was no iron in the room as standard but was available when I asked for it. There is a city tax the hotel has to charge for each night a guest stays, of 3.50 Euros a night. For this they did not take a credit card, only cash. At the end of the trip I was almost caught out - it came to 17.50 and I had just enough thankfully. A very nice hotel and I would stay there again!
Geoff - September 2015
"Excellent all-round: Good location. Very clean, comfortable and quiet room. Hotel is run by excellent staff - helpful and service with a smile 24/7."
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Mi caca, ¡no más!
Congratulations to Jon Henke, the new netroots coordinator for Senator George Allen.
Congratulations to Jon Henke, the new netroots coordinator for Senator George Allen.
Anwyn takes the Ass. Press to task for wrongly assigning too much blame to Comair 5191 survivor James Polehinke, and too little to the flight's captain, Jeffrey Clay, for making the fatal wrong turn, and to the controllers for apparently violating an FAR requiring two controllers in the tower specifically to prevent accidents like this one. There's plenty of blame go around here, and I don't see anyone coming out of this looking very good.
And we feel fine. Pics of all 8 pounds 13.8 ounces and 19.5 inches of him to follow soon. Bonus points for the first commenter who can correctly guess the county of Xrlq 3.0's birth.
UPDATE: It was a trick question, but commenter AMac nailed it.
UPDATE x2: A commenter at Patterico questions the timing of this announcement. Heh.
OK, it looks like my self-nomination was a bust. No one from the campaign has even called. Apparently, my ability to humiliate my opponents isn't enough; they actually expect their blogger to help Senator Allen get votes, too. Who knew?
Given that, I withdraw my self-nomination, and hereby second Captain Ed's nomination of Jon Henke. Anyone care to third it?
UPDATE: Good news, he got the gig.
If you don't like someone else's opinions, ask nosy, irrelevant questions and take cheap shots at him over his profession.
UPDATE: This doesn't exactly hurt, either.
UPDATE x2: Uncle demonstrates his fondness for irony by taking a commenter to task for agreeing with a post making a substantially identical point to the one Uncle himself made about Bill Hobbs a mere three months ago (or not?). I guess gratuitous swipes at somebody's profession are OK, after all – if that profession happens to be as a prosecutor.
Until recently, Virginia Senator George Allen was a shoo-in for easy reelection in November. All this changed at an August 11 campaign event, in which he mouthed off to tracker/stalker S.R. Sidarth. Allen said a few really dumb things in that exchange, and reports conflict as to which one sparked the greatest outrage. No one's really sure which statement sparked the most outrage, but possible contenders include:
The smart money says that last quote was the straw that broke the camel's back. Aside from the fact that Sidarth is of Indian rather than Mexican descent, and that he works for opponent James Webb's campaign rather than for Paco's Tacos, Allen didn't even pronounce machaca correctly. He mumbled the rest, so most observers, including Sidarth himself, heard little more than "blah blah blah … mi caca," which is Spanish for "my crap." This is a problem becuase, believe it or not, Senators really do have rules of decorum, one of which prohibits them from talking crap. Of course they do it all the time, but generaly in a semi-discreet way. To openly advertise mi caca is as unseemly as inadvertently farting in other people's presence at a formal event, and then asking everyone present if they enjoyed a good whiff of mi pedo rather than playing it off like nothing happened. To be sure, the no-crap rule of the Senate does have an unwritten exception for lobbyists, major donors and advocates of major political causes, the gentleman's understanding being that anyone who hopes to re-elected must talk crap for these guys every once in a while. Depending on how close a Senator is to his donor or lobbyist, such accepted crap is known alternatively as su caca or tu caca, both of which are generally accepted as a necessary evil. Talk crap if you must to keep a major donor happy, but talking crap for yourself? That's just tawdry.
Anyway, between his regional, national and ethnic insults and his newfound ability to get in touch with his inner feces, Allen now appears appears to be in trouble in the polls. While earlier polls had Allen trouncing Webb by an ungodly margin, more recent polls show him beating Webb by a margin almost narrow enough to leave Webb's personal dignity intact. To avoid such a horrible event from materializing in November, Allen is looking to hire a right-wing Virginia blogger, with a probable assist from Chad Dotson, to do for him what all the 'bats have long been doing for Webb.
I think Senator Allen should hire me. We're both California transplants, and we both have long histories of really, really, really pissing off our opponents and even alienating some of our potential allies. Enlisting me in his campaign won't win Allen any actual votes, of course, and might even lose a few, but so what? As long as the polls stay anywhere in the ballpark of where they are now, Allen will still win. He doesn't need more votes, he just needs to make his supporters feel better and his opponents feel worse. I can do both. A nuclear fisking or two from the Xrlqmeister, and Webb and his minions will be reduced to tears and in need of therapy in no time flat. By Election Day, their self-esteem will be so horribly battered they won't even have the nerve to spin their 52-48 loss as a "moral victory." They'll be far more humiliated that way than they would by the 60-40 trouncing they likely would have gotten if Mr. Allen had not made the embarassing statements in the first place, let alone by the 55-45 loss which is the best any blogger could accomplish for him now. I won't win him any votes, but I will make him feel better when I fisk his more vocal opponents to a pulp. With or without my help or that of any other blogger, Allen will win unless he does something else that's just as dumb as mi caca between now and November. If he does do something that dumb, all the blogging in the world won't save him. So why waste campaign dollars, ones and zeroes to convert a decent victory into a landslide, when you can have a fisk-for-all instead?
And I feel fine. Well, as fine as I could be, anyway, while mostly recovered from strep I picked up a couple of weeks ago while visiting some old friends in the perfectly-named Fauquier County.
Q: If you have a lot of money in your car and act a little funny when the police pull you over for speeding, does that make you a drug dealer?
A: Yes, if you are in the Eighth Circuit.
Lordy. Double-hat tip: Mona (yes, that Mona) and Radley Balko (yes, that Radley Balko).
UPDATE: Walter Olson has more. Mike Cernovich discusses why the case may be as flawed legally as it is morally. This assumes, of course, that the standard for appealing factual determinations in the Eighth Circuit is "clearly erroneous," and not "clearly err… aw hell, we just don't like it." Meanwhile, commenter Nels Nelson points out that the two bad judges in this case, Morris S. Arnold and Steven M. Colloton, were appointed by Presidents Bush I and Bush II, while the dissenting good guy, Hon. Donald P. Lay, was appointed by President Johnson. It's good to know that even today, not all judicial activists are liberals.
Some really smart guy wrote a brilliant letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch on the popular myth of alcohol as truth serum. Money quote:
Does anyone really believe that every person who has ever gotten drunk and had a one-night stand with an unattractive member of the opposite sex must have privately harbored a fetish for the uglies while sober?
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I haven't seen Snakes on a Plane yet (unless you count the first time they ran it, when it was called When Cobras Attack), and probably never will, but I'm going to review the movie anyway. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it -2.3. My recommendation for Samuel L. Jackson fans: wait for this one to come out on DVD, and then, don't rent it.
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Prime is an alliance-side raiding guild on Ysera that has weathered over eight years of progress. Our members are expected to have the raiding skills to prevail and the social skills to succeed with grace. More than half of our members have been with us for over a year and raid at least 80% of the time.
We believe that the backbones of our operation deserve first dibs at the experiences and rewards our raids have to offer. Therefore, our top rank confers privileges for raid invitation and loot priority. Our raiders meet tough but fair requirements for raid performance and attendance. Prime's players put in effort outside raids to maximize our limited raid time.
Our current raid schedule is:Monday - 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern TimeWednesday - 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.Thursday - 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.Old raid schedule (We will go back to this when there is interest in raiding more hours and schedules agree)Monday - 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern TimeWednesday - 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.Thursday - 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.Sunday - 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.If you have questions about Prime, please contact:Keltos (GM and officer)Zariah/Guice (officer and raid leader)Syncrowe/Valkyryn (officer and raid leader)
We are coming back for Legion. Take things slow see who else is interested in playing too. I totally expect we will have to pug a bit at first. I can say though raid times will be different and likely a bit more flexible. The focus will be on normal/heroic content and we will go from there. Now if the content is good and the interest there for Mythic, to be frank, that will require a server transfer to a higher raiding pop server (Sargeras) for that to be successful this time around. Unless Blizzard decides to cross-realm Mythic sooner in the tier of course.
I will be there and I will be trying to get raids off the ground as long as there is interest.
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The sources say that they see Samsung continuing to buy chips from Japanese firms while in-house production goes straight to Galaxy smartphones or tablets. This means that the Japanese purchased parts are being sent out for non-Samsung devices. With the way that Samsung Galaxy models are selling, it sounds like Samsung will soon be needing additional chips which is why there is speculation the company will turn to Elpida Memory for mobile DRAM chips and Toshiba for eMMC devices.
Considering that this information is coming from those anonymous "industry sources" we suggest a little skepticism while you process this information.
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Boston; two years, two poems.
When I got to college last September, the very first week, I wrote a poem for Boston.
I do not own you
Not in the way that I am used to owning
The air in my lungs
We are still hesitant and do not know
If a kiss on the cheek is too personal
Or should we shake hands?
We are acquaintances
And forgive me
But I don't yet know how you take your coffee
Or if you'll ever feel like home
This is not a poem I ever meant to share with anyone because I never found it particularly special. I was never overwhelmingly pleased with the imagery. I thought the word choice was just okay. It was only the nervous anxiety of freshman forlorn, an urge that I needed to jot down.
I am sharing it now because I finally, definitely, calamitously have an answer for myself.
This is the second poem I wrote for Boston, written April 17.
I saw you in a tank top
I saw you in racer shorts
I saw you down a beer at 10:45 on a Monday morning
I saw you climb a tree in a crowded intersection too drunk to care that the cops were calling you
I saw you smiling Citgo shine
And then I saw the insides of your arteries.
I saw the marrow in your bone
And it was full of spongy hands holding hands holding eyebrow creases
It was full of children holding women holding men shaking bad
It was full of metallic police stars officer officer OFFICER PLEASE
and then, Yes.
Then smears less like war paint and more like pen ink
Do Not Be Afraid, For The Wicked Are Not Wicked Here
We are loud but we can be so soft—We are only calloused baby skin
and You can sleep here tonight
A city quick to sleep, quick to drink, quick to stand, but quickest to love so hard it aches my fingers to watch
The marrow that I saw in your bones had rolled up letters inside
Firm and wet smudged and in my handwriting
God, see this place
Recover it soundly
And most especially rename it My Home
Boston is recovering. Copley opened for the first time again this weekend. In a way things are settling back to a sense of normal. But for me, things will never be the same. Because for me I discovered a new place in me that was born in and will always be from Boston.
Category: Art and Literature, Boston, Campus Culture, featured, Philosophy and Religion, Poetry, Prose and Comedy
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"Make" Your Own Luxury Camera BagPin It
If you are anything like me, you probably drool over Kelly Moore bags and ONA bags, but you may not have 200-300 bucks to spend on a bag just because it is pretty. That extra couple hundred goes towards actual equipment when I've got it. If I DID have extra cash lying around I would definitely go for a leather ONA bag, but in the meantime I need to cart around multiple bodies and lenses and need to make sure they are protected. What to do!?
Well...in comes the "ALLENAIM" bag. I say that rather jokingly because...well...you'll see...
I simply cut out the lining of the blue bag and inserted the black bag inside. I had to make some choice cuts to get everything to fit, but now the two bags fit together 'almost' seamlessly.
|I pulled the lining out and rolled up portions in order to fit the large black bag inside.
There are 2 small pockets on either side of the bag. One is just the right size for holding business cards and a little cash, while the other has room for a few photography essentials...Sharpies, lipstick, Burt's Bees and deodorant. (Yes...those all are essentials and it is also essential they stay VERY separate from your expensive camera equipment.)
Here is a view from the top. The two pockets on the sides hold 4 little compartments for lenses while the large middle compartment holds two bodies. One has a 200mm lens on it while the other just has a 50mm. One of the reasons this bag works out really well is because the material and seaming is very flexible. The bag opens up widely at the top allowing for access, but closes up tightly for security.
Since many of you have asked what is IN my camera bag, here goes!
I started out on a D40 (camera 3), currently shoot with a D7000 (camera 2) and recommend the D3000 (camera 1).
Whatever you do, save your money you had set aside for that Nikon Coolpix or Canon Powershot and buy a used DSLR. Trust me.
...oh and PS -- these tips work JUST as well for a manual camera as they do for digital cameras...


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Posts Tagged 'sensational sets'
Colour Your World
June 28th, 20120
This is the time of year when we bare more flesh, we tend to wax more, use fake tan and moisturize more often. We also might get a bit braver with our clothes and colour choices. The usual grey trousers and black top combo swapped for vibrant patterned maxi dress and fuchsia cardi. We are not so afraid to step out in colour in the summer months and that seems to follow through to our lingerie choices too, white, black and flesh tones are replaced by bright, punchy and 'in your face' colours.
If you are not yet a convert of bright lingerie, read on…Vibrant colour gives you an instant lift when you wear it, it's flattering for all skin tones with or without a tan, a coloured bra strap showing through a top, can coordinate with your outfit and look stylish. And if you ever need to strip off in public, you will look utterly gorgeous in your coloured set. Bravissimo have some amazing new brights in our collection that will definitely make you feel more Bollywood then Brentwood. Take a look at some of our favourite sets.
The Linear Rose Bra by Bravissimo is an underwired full cup and is based on the Melrose shape that our Bravissimo ladies love! This bra will offer you more coverage and great support. It is available in mouthwatering raspberry, with coordinating embroidery and it is finished off with contrasting teal patterned bows. It is available to buy with matching deep briefs or a thong.
The Thea Bra by Bravissimo is available in zesty lemon and it comes with matching briefs or thong. It is an underwired plunge and is simple, but really pretty and will give you a lovely rounded shape and also a bit of uplift. Our reviewers already love this bra for its firm fit, gorgeous shape and comfort. One reviewer described it as 'Sunshine on a rainy day'.
The Tanzania Stripe Bra by Bravissimo is a fabulous looking bra, it is an underwired half cup, and is available in teal/iris in contrasted animal print. It is based on the Demi Diva and Rococo Charm and creates a lovely shape and amazing uplift, a really stunning set and it's available with shorts or a thong.
We have mentioned the Mai Blossom Bra by Bravissimo before, but it definitely deserves another mention, as it is so vibrant in this Red/Mango print. The Mai Blossom is an underwired balconette and offers super fit and great support. It is available with shorts or thong. Our reviewers love it, for its comfort and shape, one customer commented, "Possibly the most comfortable bra I've ever had – no lace under the boobs to irritate, the fabric is really soft".
Superstar Bras
October 11th, 20110
Since Bravissimo hit the high streets, there have been plenty of our bras that consistently receive fantastic reviews from fans and we feel they are worth shouting about, as they seem to have made such a difference to our ladies' lives.
These bras stand out not only because they give amazing shape and make clothes look fantastic, but also because they are still comfortable and supportive which we all know is THE winning combination.
One of our superstar bras is the best selling Alana Bra by Bravissimo. This bra has been used by the one and only Gok Wan at one of his recent roadshows and we know how he feels about finding the right bra, before you even move on to the outfit! Our in-store Bravissimo fitters love this bra and probably use it the most during fittings because of the gorgeous shape it creates, plus the super fit and support. For an everyday bra it is pretty and is available in so many colours you will be spoilt for choice. The Alana, is an underwired balconette and in sizes DD-G cups it has a 2 hook fastening and in GG-L, 3 hooks. A selection of the positive comments about The Alana, have included, "The fit is true to size", "It creates the best shape", "Highly recommended for everyday wear", and "Is very, very comfortable"".
Another one of our amazing performers is the Deco Bra by Freya, because we know how much our Bravissimo ladies rave about this bra. This gorgeous bra is now newly available in graphite, with a pretty mother of pearl button detail, this is a perfect buy for autumn. It is a moulded plunge, which is perfect for close fitting tops. It also creates fantastic cleavage, so when you want to go for a sexier look with a lower cut top, maybe for an evening out, the Deco would be a great choice. This is some of the great feedback we have received about the Deco bra, "The Deco is absolutely the best moulded bra there is", "I can't believe it's taken me this long to find it", "It's true to size, supportive and so comfortable!", and "Fabulous fit-great cleavage".
What more can we say, check out more of our bestsellers online or in-store.


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Have a file that needs to be attached to an e-mail?
Need the file's information in an appointment?
Maybe it contains information that you need in the notes of a new contact, or a task to be completed.
Whatever the need – the point is that you need the file's information and nobody wants the hassle of manually transferring all of it. After all, the file already contains what you need, why duplicate the data?
So… you've got to wonder, if there's a different choice.
And, as you are expecting, I have to say yes – you do have a choice.
Next time you need a file's information in connection to a part of MS Outlook give this a try:
Drag and drop the file into the appropriate section of Outlook.
Could it be that easy?
Why, yes it can.
Simply locate the file, click-hold-and-drag the file into Outlook. (Remember, if Outlook is not the currently visible then hover the mouse pointer over where Outlook is on the Task bar. It will bring the focus to Outlook so that you can proceed.)
Now that Outlook is visible, hover the pointer over the section/folder where you need to place the file.
At this point you simply release the mouse button.
A new item… appointment, e-mail message, contact, task, etc… will open with the file as an attachment ready for you to finish up and save.
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VOTERS plan to punish Nadine Dorries for signing up to I'm A Celebrity — by
making her do EVERY revolting bushtucker trial.
The MP — who was yesterday suspended from the Tory party by a furious David
Cameron — could be forced to eat a record number of kangaroo testicles.
Voters in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency are angry she has abandoned them
to pocket £40,000 to join the show in Australia.
They plan to get their own back by making her suffer the horror tasks — which
saw Towie's Mark Wright having to down vile meals on the show last year.
One said online: "We should all vote for her to do every bushtucker trial."
Another added: "This might be the first time I vote for Nadine Dorries."
Tory bosses are also on the warpath. A Conservative spokesman last night said
Chief Whip Sir George Young wanted "an urgent meeting" with her.
She also faces deselection by her local party who claim she misled them by
saying she was filming a documentary.
Constituency chief Paul Duckett said: "We'll be taking a very severe view.
"I can think of better things to do than sitting in a jungle with a bucket of
maggots on your head."
Some Tories were glad to see the back of the 55-year-old Cameron critic —
dubbed Mad Nad because of her fiery temper.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: "I will be voting to keep her in as
long as possible."
Dorries — the first serving MP on the show — flew to Australia on Monday and
is staying in a five-star Queensland hotel.
An insider said ITV bosses have "no plans" to inform her of her suspension
from the Tory party. Conservative officials were told yesterday she was
As she arrived in Brisbane, she said: "I've worked seven years as an MP and
never taken a day off in Parliamentary time.
"Parliament is in half-term. The important thing is 16 million people watch
this show. Rather than MPs talking to one another, they should be talking to
16 million people." An ITV source said: "She is feisty and has already got
people worked up."
– STUNNING ex-Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts, 31, is the latest to jet
into Oz for the show. The US singer hasn't ruled out looking for love,
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By Kyle Dickman
FRESH OFF THE 12-HOUR BUS TRIP from Santiago, I met a group of 10 Demshitz in Mamas and Tapas. It's the only bar the Demshitz visit after bombing waterfalls on one of the dozen Class V rivers near Pucon: classics with names like Palguin, Puesco and Nevados. The town is surrounded by beech forests and sits on a lake beneath a conical volcano. Vendors sell locally grown cherries and empanadas beside shops with Patagonia puffs in display windows. That night it was raining, and six street dogs were curled up under the bar's awning.
The Garcia brothers, Ian and Evan, were propped up against the bar talking to Anton Immler, a notoriously rowdy Swede whose Facebook profile picture is him naked in a field, chasing a giraffe. Fred Norquist, Erik Johnson, and Graham Seiler—Jared's brother—were there. And L.J. was back. The part-time Pucon resident and NRS pro, L.J. Groth, had rolled into town that night, six months after he left for a job in the States. Celebration was in order. I sat at a corner table with Jared Seiler, Fusilli, and his girlfriend, Nicole Mansfield. They told me the story of the Demshitz.
It begins in 2006, when Pyranha's Hager gave Fusilli and Seiler the keys to the company van, a nominal paycheck, and the loose direction to be seen kayaking. The list of classics they paddled would make any kayaker envious: the Little White, the Green, Upper Cherry, Yule Creek, the Moose. A boater named David George coined the term that summer in Montana. Sitting on a porch with Fusilli, watching the same guy drive back and forth in front of them, George said, "Demshitz loves us." The crew was officially christened when Fusilli made a bumper sticker and slapped it on the back of Pyrhana's van. That November, they flew to Austria to compete in the Sickline championships—cancelled due to high water—and in January, they made their first pilgrimage to South America.
Fusilli, tall and lean with a frock of curly hair, grew up digging graves for his father, who owns a cemetery in Clarion, Pennsylvania. At 29, he's the oldest of the Demshitz and seems more serious about making a profession in the kayaking industry than the others. He and Mansfield, a Dartmouth graduate, paddled 26 out of the 30 days they were in Chile and would leave the next morning for Utah, where they spend their winters working at Alta Ski Area and planning Pyrhana's summer kayaking tour, which starts in April.
Since the Demshitz arrived on the scene in 2006, Seiler and Fusilli have taken eight trips to South America, released Demshitz: The Movie, put 130,000 miles on Pyranha's van, and were arrested in Salida, Colorado for being blackout drunk (Fusilli says he remembers the whole incident; Seiler makes no such claim). They also developed the Brown Claw, which is basically a gang sign that looks like a hand palming a baseball. The sign, along with the term, is co-opted from Sasha Baron Cohen's character Borat, who uses it to signify a need to shit. The Demshitz throw it at all occasions deemed worthy of celebration: big rapids, booty beers, greetings. Their Brown Claw Facebook page has more than 1,000 friends.
"Skiers and snowboarders are throwing it now," Seiler said, not a little proud. He has black hair and at 5-foot-4 and 150 pounds, is built like a can of tuna. Quiet and thoughtful when sober, in Pucon he's known as Diablito—the little devil—after his fourth or fifth rum and coke.
Last year, Fusilli and Seiler produced and starred in Demshitz Made, a play on MTV's Made. The Demshitz taught a new kayaker to paddle with the goal of getting him to surf British Columbia's Skookumchuck, a 15-foot standing wave, in 20 days. In the opening sequence, a cool female voice—Mansfield—sets up the rookie's chances of success. Then a shot of two seals having sex flashes, and she asks, "Or will he be buggered by a seal?" It's the type of media they plan to use as the foundation for Demshitz TV: fun, irreverent toward all who take whitewater too seriously, and produced, seemingly, without ambitions outside of kayaking.
"Everybody on tour always says we're having the most fun out there," Fusilli said. "We want Demshitz TV to show the same thing."
Demshitz TV may be Seiler's last effort to live the kayak-bum lifestyle at its purest. He's seriously considering moving back to Pennsylvania full-time, where he has a girlfriend and a job offer to install solar panels for good money. "Like $40,000 a year. And, I'll have a bed to sleep on." Fusilli is more inclined to stick it out. He does double duty at Pyranha as the team manager, and Mansfield is on the team. The key to getting Demshitz TV to work, they suppose, is enlisting some of their 1,500 Facebook friends to post their videos. Then again, the idea may amount to nothing.
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Reds prospect hasn't allowed an earned run in last four starts
By Sam Dykstra / Special to MLB.com | July 13, 2012 9:17 PM ET
And it was there that he re-entered Tony Cingrani's territory.
The Reds' No. 10 prospect pitched a four-hitter over seven innings for his first career complete game Friday as the Blue Wahoos edged Chattanooga, 2-1, in the first game of a doubleheader.
It was also the first complete in Pensacola's 3 1/2-month history as Cingrani (5-1) allowed an unearned run and walked two batters.
The Lookouts' lone run came on a passed ball in the fourth inning, ending Cingrani's career-high scoreless streak at 24 innings. He allowed only two more baserunners over the final 3 2/3 frames.
The 23-year-old left-hander, who rang up a career-low two strikeouts and threw exactly 100 pitches, has not allowed an earned run in four starts since June 27.
Even as the zeros continue to pile up, Cingrani wasn't sure if this is his best stretch of baseball.
"Possibly," he said. "I know there haven't been too many strikeouts in there, so maybe it hasn't been great as it looks. But I'm just getting them to roll over on a lot of my pitches, and that's been a big part of it."
While the strikeout totals have gone down from 15 on June 27 to two on Friday, 13 Lookouts couldn't quite figure out Cingrani and were retired on ground balls. That total is a season high.
A big reason may be improved off-speed stuff, including a changeup and slider that have been a focus in between starts.
"The changeup was better tonight," he said. "The slider was there when I needed it to be there. It's all about just getting them over the plate and letting them do their thing."
Cingrani lowered his Southern League ERA to 1.29 and has 52 strikeouts in eight starts since a promotion from Class A Advanced Bakersfield early last month. He leads all full-season Minor Leaguers with a 1.19 overall ERA, ranks second with 123 strikeouts and sixth with a 0.94 WHIP.
That doesn't mean the Illinois native doesn't believe there's room for improvement, especially with the shutout streak over.
"You always want to make adjustments after every start," Cingrani said. "Focus was one of those [after my last start] and throwing my changeup for strikes was another."
As for what he'll look to improve following Friday's outing?
"I haven't even thought about it yet," Cingrani said. "We'll take a look at it over the next few days."
As much as the southpaw stole the spotlight from Hamilton Friday night, the speedy shortstop made sure he wouldn't be completely forgotten.
The 21-year-old shortstop stole two bases in the first game and added one in the nightcap, a 6-1 Pensacola win. He leads the Minors with 107 thefts.
"He brings panic to the basepaths," said Cingrani, who teamed with Hamilton at Bakersfield earlier this year. "He's had four stolen bases in just three games here so far. [When they called him up], I was definitely excited to watch him every day."
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"Delhi sealed the right to host the Games when their delegates emerged at the final presentation in Jamaica and offered all 72 nations $ 100,000 each for athlete training schemes if they were the successful bidders," the daily reported.
The report also claimed, "The money, subsequently paid to all nations, was not significant to Australia because it had already decided to vote for India and the payment was not an exceptionally large one."
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Springfield, Mass- March 17, 2010 - Despite holding the fifth-ranked Middlebury College Panthers scoreless in two separate quarters, the Springfield College men's lacrosse team could not overcome a four-goal second quarter as it dropped a close 6-5 contest on Wednesday evening.
The loss drops Springfield to 2-3 on the year, while Middlebury improves to 2-0.
Springfield opened up the scoring as it netted the lone goal of the opening quarter of play. After a strong ride forced a failed Middlebury clear within its own defensive third, Kyle Louer picked up the ball on the restart and found the back of the cage at the 7:50 mark.
However, the Middlebury offense hit its stride in the second quarter as it scored four unanswered goals to snag a 4-1 advantage. Andrew Conner netted the Panthers first goal of the game 50 seconds into the stanza as he bounced home a shot after fighting through a Springfield check. Neither team would score for over 10 minutes until Alex Englert converted on an unassisted strike after clearing the ball nearly 60 yards after a Panther save. 55 seconds later Jeff Begin let loose a cannon and found the upper corner of the net to give the visitors a 3-1 lead. Conner found the back of the cage for his second goal of the quarter with 1:26 remaining as Middlebury opened up a three-goal cushion.
The Pride's scoring drought was finally snapped with nine seconds left in the half as Shawn Runyon scooped up an errant pass in front of the net and blasted home Springfield's first goal in nearly 23 minutes.
The Panthers were flagged for an illegal body check as time expired in the first half, allowing Springfield start the second half on a man-up advantage. Austin Orsini found Joe Heney 23 seconds into the stanza for the Pride's third tally of the game.
Orsini then recorded a goal of his own after Cory Schwarzkopf caused a turnover near midfield. The senior defender then lobbed a pass over the Panthers defense to a streaking Orsini, who slipped home the game-tying goal at the 11:57 mark.
Middlebury responded with the game's next two goals to rebulid its lead to 6-4. Tim Cahill slotted home a goal as he tip-toed along the crease off a nice pass from Jack Masur with 10:09 remaining and Peter Smith found Englert trailing in transition with just over four minutes remaining for what would prove to be the the game-winning strike.
The fourth quarter was marred by Springfield turnovers as SC committed five of its 23 errors in the frame. Joe Macchi tallied a sensational strike with 1:51 on the clock after a terrific individual effort from 10 yards out to make it a one-goal game.
Mark Eaton won the ensuing face-off and head coach Keith Bugbee called a timeout to set up his offense. Out of the break, Macchi got his hands free and let a rocket fly towards the cage, only to clang off the crossbar with 36 seconds on the clock. After Orsini grabbed the loose ball, Macchi had another chance to score with 25 seconds left but his shot was broken up and Middlebury ran out the clock to hang on for the win.
Marc Martinez had a very nice game between the pipes for Springfield, totaling 17 saves, including 11 in the first half. His counterpart, Ryan Deane, tallied 11 saves and four ground balls in the victory.
Eaton led SC with eight ground balls as he won 7-of-14 face-offs, while Matt Rayner caused four turnovers and picked up three ground balls for the Panther defense. Springfield didn't' do itself any favors as it committed 23 turnovers compared to just 13 by Middlebury.
Springfield will now have another long layoff before traveling to take on Bowdoin in a neutral-site game on March 31. The Pride and Polar Bears will square off at Exeter High School at 7:00 pm.


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Listening to this Kindness album (only 3 years after Swinging Party and Gee Whiz) I get the feeling that Kindness isn't all that kind.
Weirdly insecure disco, wholescale identity theft of Prince and Arthur Russel and a bunch of well meaning love songs that try and make it seem like the author is wise and magnaminous, when the reality is that he's the type of Dalston Superstar that most people would cross the continent to avoid being in a long term relationship with. The record is only saved by the sneaking suspicion that that may be the point. A genius send up of retro party music, but so well put together that it almost eclipses the joke. Barley just got it's soundtrack, fashionably late.


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- Author: Russian and East European Institute
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- Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/newsEvents/2013/Kucherskaya.pdf
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This lecture examines relations between the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian society, and the Russian state over the last 25 years. Who attends Orthodox services in contemporary Russia? What do the events surrounding Pussy Riot signify? What accounts for the phenomenal success of Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov's Nesviatye sviatye [Unholy Saints]? What are the social and political roles of prominent ecclesiastical authorities like Patriarch Kirill, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, and Archpriest Alek


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Definition of secure
1a archaic : unwisely free from fear or distrust : overconfidentb : easy in mind : confidentc : assured in opinion or expectation : having no doubt
2a : free from dangerb : free from risk of lossc : affording safety a secure hideawayd : trustworthy, dependable a secure foundation
3 : assured 1 a secure victory
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How secure is your front door?
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I'm feeling secure about my place in the company.
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Latin securus safe, secure, from se without + cura care — more at suicide
First Known Use: circa 1545
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transitive verb
1a : to relieve from exposure to danger : act to make safe against adverse contingencies secure a supply line from enemy raidsb : to put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving : guarantee secure the blessings of liberty — U.S. Constitutionc : to give pledge of payment to (a creditor) or of (an obligation) secure a note by a pledge of collateral
2a : to take (a person) into custody : hold fast : pinionb : to make fast secure a door secure a bike to a tree
3a : to get secure usually lasting possession or control of secure a jobb : bring about, effect
4 : to release (naval personnel) from work or duty
intransitive verb
1 of naval personnel : to stop work : go off duty
2 of a ship : to tie up : berth
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We must secure the country's borders.
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secure a child safety seat
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Reviewers and bloggers have been waxing lyrical — lubricious even — about the cornbread at Lockhart's in Marylebone, where Mississippi man Brad McDonald has been appointed head chef. It does sound like something you'd want to throw yourself into. I am planning a visit.
Meanwhile, I have been to eat at the recently relaunched Avenue in St James's, where a revised look and an American menu have been introduced. In 1995 when Christopher Bodker, formerly an investment banker with SG Warburg & Co in New York, opened The Avenue — as it was then called — it was intended to have a sort of Sex and the City vibe with which the purist all-white, clean-limbed design by the late Rick Mather did not quite chime.
In those days an American menu might have been considered low-rent or maybe a step too far, but in any event the food was in the style labelled modern British. There was — and still is — an unusually long bar, and a busy bar scene duly evolved.
Twelve years later Bodker's Image Restaurants group has been sold to D&D London, which now owns Avenue, without the definite article, and which has wrought the latest style transformation. Not to offer American food in London these days would be an obvious solecism.
Michael Blizzard, a British chef but one who has worked for Daniel Boulud in the States, has been hired and an American menu composed — whether this is by Blizzard or by a committee from head office I am later to wonder.
My lunch date says she has seen a pic of a pork muffin so is raring to try Avenue. The Black Angus Hamburger under the heading Grills has her gurgling about the Black Label Burger at Minetta Tavern in New York and we seem set for a good time. We have fun because we always do, but it is in spite of the food.
I opt for the set menu, which delivers rye-smoked salmon as languid as if straight from a vac pac with a blob of mild soured cream and a horseradish and corn muffin. The muffin is hard and sandy, warmer inside at its impacted centre than out. Scallop ceviche from the à la carte cowering in small prim circles at the centre of a plate is mugged by chopped jalapeno chillies mixed with diced cucumber (not green tomatoes as promised) and hasn't even been allowed a shake of salt with which to fight back.
Yufka cod with habanera tartare arrives looking like a photo of Filet-O-Fish but without the bun (yufka, being as far as I know a type of Turkish bread, gives no clue to its whereabouts). The crumbed cod is overcooked and tasteless and chillies scattered like pointless jokes throughout most of the rest of the menu make no impact on the tartare.
To offer a burger "Blue & White" — with Roquefort and pickled cabbage — the beef needs the sort of depth of flavour achieved at Minetta by dry ageing and a mix of cuts, but at Avenue the meat is anodyne and just knuckles under. In pricing Avenue (£15.50) does resemble Minetta ($27). "Golden Arches," I murmur as the dessert we share of Bramley apple pie fritters makes an appearance.
Dinner later with a group of friends doesn't alter my opinion of the cooking. Clam chowder in a hollowed-out sourdough loaf is idiotic as it results in less than a teacup of ever-increasingly claggy soup. Wedge of iceberg — the most sterile salading on earth — doesn't even benefit from drama in proud, rearing presentation. Instead it is sprawling messily on the plate, splashed with something called "kimchi ranch" dobbed about with flaccid pieces of pork, not what chicharrón (fried rind) implies.
Vocabulary has been well researched but calling a spring onion a scallion — as in the vegetarian option of corn (porridgey polenta), porcini and scallion — does not make for a sophisticated or even adequate American experience. The chap with whom I share fatty, cloying Boston Butt says he hopes it will be the only unpleasant thing that we will ever share. To Edward, our very own vegetarian option, he adds that the Boston Butt is the best single argument for a life without meat encountered in a restaurant.
Pecan and hazelnut brownie is light and cakey, not dense and fudgy; the gritty texture of Key Lime Sundae gets compared to exfoliating citrus shower gel.
What's to like? Well, staff are willing, particularly Gaelle, who deals with our table of six with grace and aplomb. The "Farmstead" (oh please) cheese selection includes Comté. The wine list is arguably interesting although American wines seem to have been considered synonymous with California — too few from Oregon or elsewhere — and are unsurprisingly jolly expensive, the more so as upselling bustles on. There is a selection of vintage Bourbons.
D&D is not a stranger to good cooking. It is available at Kensington Place and Angler at South Place Hotel, to name just two manifestations. But thinking about Lockhart's cornbread and then Avenue's corn muffins, there seems to be a steep slip between concept and lip. "I wouldn't feed those [the muffins] to cattle," was the verdict of my lunch date.
7-9 St James's Street SW1 (020 7321 2111, avenue-restaurant.co.uk). Mon-Sat noon-3pm & 5.45pm-11pm. Set lunch, pre-theatre menu £19.50/£23.50 for two/three courses. A la carte, a meal for two with wine, about £150 including 12.5 per cent service.
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I never even got this on the bike. When I attempted to attach to the bar, the attachment device - a plasticized notched strap captured via teeth from the screw, failed first time. The case for the phone appears to be OK, but not water tight or worth the trouble to fix the attachment device.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Gray Ghost
from Northern Wi.
Bought the phone case so that I could carry my phone with me and use it to rcord work outs.
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- Not Understanding the Purpose of Asset Protection: Asset protection will not make you "judgment proof"; however, asset protection may improve your negotiating position by making it harder for judgment creditors to get your assets.
- Believing That It Is Too Late To Protect Assets: Its never too late to improve protection. Late asset protection can still help as long as you don't try to hide assets and lie under oath to your creditors.
- Thinking Creditors are Stupid or Lazy: Don't underestimate the skill and intelligence of your adversaries. Creditors and their attorneys are not stupid. You cannot invent asset protection schemes and believe your creditors will not understand what you did.
- Hiding Assets : There are no longer any secrets in this world. You cannot hide assets, offshore or anywhere else, to protect them from creditors, the IRS, or former spouses.
- Fraudulent Transfers and Conveyances: You cannot protect assets by giving them to family members.
- Falling For Asset Protection Promoters and Scams: As asset protection planning has gained popularity, there are many companies promoting complicated asset protection devices such as establishing Nevada or Wyoming companies or offshore trusts. These promoters are usually not attorneys. Their plans are overpriced and usually will not work well in a courtroom in a real case. Especially beware of non-lawyers selling asset protection plans.
- Confusing Estate Planning With Asset Protection: Asset protection is part of estate planning, but a living trust or self-settled irrevocable trust does nothing to protect your assets from creditors.
- Confusing Bankruptcy Law and Asset Protection Law: Bankruptcy law does not affect Florida's unlimited homestead exemption and other exemptions outside bankruptcy court. You have less protection in bankruptcy court than you do in state court, and filing bankruptcy is usually a last resort.
- Giving Up Control Over Your Assets: The easiest asset protection plan is to give someone else control over your wealth. This is not a good solution in most cases; however, in some situations giving up some control is your only alternative.
- Paying Large Fees For Complicated Asset Protection Plans: The best asset protection is the simplest asset protection. Many promoters and some attorneys try to convince clients that effectiveness is a function of how much money you spend on complicated asset protection devices and multiple layers of entities. Good asset protection is not necessarily expensive.
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