creeley words spurred view language buffalo robert one significant american poets time will remembered around world poet pretentiousness anathema poetry like music wasted note known spare verse sun sentinel leading figure postmodern concise free form style distilled powerful emotions died hospital odessa texas brief illness groundbreaking dies york helped transform postwar making conversational emotionally direct tex residence writers retreat maintained lannan foundation marfa toronto post modern associated beat generation age widely acclaimed san francisco chronicle america celebrated half century literary avant garde complications lung disease white dead willmington star regarded great prominent kgbt rio grande valley longtime college professor today reports yesterday pneumonia writer wrgb ‰aeÓ greatest plainview daily rights reserved material published broadcast rewritten redistributed university former faculty member reporter suny distinguished samuel capen poetics department english conducting residency funded