Creeley was alone in the idiom of his sentiment
but was, at the same time, willing to criticise the
norms of popular culture. In America (which
influenced Ginsberg's poem of the same name) he
states "America, you ode for reality! Give back the
people you took". Creeley is obstinate in his abject
protest position (like Ferlinghetti and Everson),
he is waiting for enlightenment and anticipates
what was to come. He conveys this in "The door
(II)" when he states "But I see the door, and knew
the wall, and wanted the wood and would get
there if I could". Creeley was the founding father
of the beats, one of the original "leaders of the
tribe", he anticipated what was to come and was
acutely shamanic in his poetry.
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