Robert Creeley on Black Mountain College

There's a new post at NatureS ... well, it's a new post, but the article that is its primary occasion actually dates to 1978. "Robert Creeley: Here and Now" includes some reflections by Creeley on Black Mountain College in its final years:

Black Mountain was more than a college. It was actually a collection of real people.

It wasn't trying to save the world. ... The one real dilemma of that reality was that the world wasn't finally there, although people lived and died, tried to commit suicide, put themselves in extraordinary intellectual and existential patterns, but somehow the world was absent. .. . There was an inexorable sense of practicing for the world ... One thing now in retrospect is that extraordinary rehearsals did take place - Black Mountain was an extraordinary rehearsal of possibilities.

Take a look.