Robert Grenier (poet)

Robert Grenier is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Iowa Program in Creative Writing. He has taught literature and creative writing at UC Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia College, New College of California and Mills College. His works include Sentences, Series, Oakland, A Day At The Beach, Phantom Anthems and OWL/ON/BOU/GH. In an essay from the first issue of This, Grenier declared: "I HATE SPEECH". Ron Silliman, commenting on Robert Grenier's gesture some years afterward, wrote: Grenier's recent "books" have been variously described as folios of haiku-like inscriptions or transcriptions. ==Notes==

Books of poems • Dusk Road Games (poems, 1960–66). Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1967. • Sentences Towards Birds (41 poems from Sentences). Kensington, CA: L Press, 1975. • Series (poems, 1967–71). San Francisco: This Press, 1978. • Sentences (500 poems on 5" x 8" index cards, boxed, 1972–77). Cambridge, MA Whale Cloth Press, 1978. • ''CAMBRIDGE M'ASS'' (265 poems on 40" x 48" poster). Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1979. • Oakland. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1980. • A Day At The Beach. New York: Roof Books, 1985. • Phantom Anthems. Oakland, CA: O Books, 1986. • What I Believe. Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1988. • What I Believe transpiration/transpiring Minnesota (66 8.5" x 11" pages, unbound, boxed). Oakland, CA: O Books, 1991. • 12 from r h y m m s (12 4-color 8-1/2" x 11" drawing poems in envelope). Columbus, OH: Pavement Saw Press, 1996. • OWL/ON/BOU/GH (32 4-color 11" x 17" drawing poems in black portfolio). Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1997. • 16 from r h y m m s (16 4-color 8-1/2" x 11" drawing poems in envelope). Marfa, TX: Marfa Book Company/Impossible Objects, 2014. ==External links==