ABSTRACT
The Robert Creeley's "The Door" is composed in the place between hope and despair, between destination and origin; it is a poem concerned with the present moment and the moment always yet to come. "The Door" appeared in 1959, first in Poetry magazine and later in Creeley's book A Form of Woman. In 1962 A Form of Woman became the second section (poems 1956-58) of his first complete collection of poems, For Love. "The Door" stands out in the collection not only for its length and its use of modified quatrains-a style that grounds much of Creeley's formal practice-but also for its lyric effect, its focus on the domestic space, and its concern for poetic tradition as well as Creeley's contemporaries, subjects that would continue to occupy his imagination in the following decades.
