{"id":8,"date":"2005-03-30T21:53:45","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-09-16T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:25:20","slug":"8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/8\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the passing of renowned poet Robert Creeley<\/a> yesterday at the age of 78, I am thinking of well-known writers I’ve met. It would be a little too grim to limit this to those who have died.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few Creeley lines from For Love: Poems 1950-1960<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What is it that
\nis finally so helpless
\ndifferent, despairs of its own
\nstatement, wants to
\nturn away, endlessly
\nto turn away<\/p>\n

(I heard Creeley read while I was in college. I was also admitted into one of writing classes, but I had a geographical problem: he was in Masschusetts; I was in California, attending classes because I didn’t get into his class quickly enough to suit me. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd\/ Petals on a wet black bough.” Damn, I was good.*)<\/p>\n

Excluding co-workers, I think the most well-known copywriter I have met was Tom Nathan. He taught a copywriting class in N ew York and had worked at Scali McCabe Sloves. He wrote some incredible advertising. <\/p>\n

The one I remember most vividly is
\nA Volvo discovery. Rain also falls on the rear window.<\/strong> — showing of course, the rear window wiper on a Volvo station wagon.<\/p>\n

Does anyone have any encounters with famous writers or copywriters? What ads, what marketing campaigns, were they most famous for? And if you are Ed McCabe, don’t tell me because I just won’t believe you.<\/p>\n

*OK, the poem is by Ezra Pound called “In a Station of the Metro<\/a>.” The link has a wonderful description of how Pound came to write this poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the passing of renowned poet Robert Creeley yesterday at the age of 78, I am thinking of well-known writers I’ve met. It would be a little too grim to limit this to those who have died. Here’s a few Creeley lines from For Love: Poems 1950-1960: What is it that is finally so helpless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}