English Language and Literature ETDs
Publication Date
1-31-1967
Abstract
Four years ago I found myself ready to begin writing poetry. Like Denise Levertov, who once described herself in retrospect as “twenty-four-going-on-sixteen,” I was a late budder, (The few bits of scribbling I have left from earlier years are ample proof that my late start was the best course for me.) Charles Tomlinson was teaching an "advanced creative writing course" in poetry at the University of New Mexico at that time, and I studied with him. The following year, I was able to study under Robert Creeley in a course with the same title and number. I feel very lucky on two points: first, that I had the advantage of working with both of these competent poets; and second, that their tutelage came in that order. The reverse order would have been at the least valueless, and most probably disastrous to me as a poet.
Degree Name
English
Level of Degree
Masters
Department Name
English
First Committee Member (Chair)
Franklin Miller Dickey
Second Committee Member
George Warren Arms
Third Committee Member
Paul Benjamin Davis
Document Type
Thesis
Recommended Citation
Bock, Layeh A.. "Gestalten." (1967). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/323
