Abstract: Through the impersonation of sentimental markings, the desubjectivation of instant expressions and the dissociation of dispersive style, Robert Creeley, a representative poet of the Black Mountain School, paves a valuable development pathway for the transition of 20th century American poetry from modernism to postmodernism. Creeley's poetry goes beyond the lyric tradition, and enters the frontier of modern poetics. Such qualities as typical wisdom writing, process poetics and dispersive art reflected in his poetry provide not only new poetic theory and new perspective of interpretation for both Creeley's individual poetics and the whole American postmodern poetry, but also valuable theoretical implications for the construction of new poetry in the 21st century.

Key words: Robert Creeley, Black Mountain School, process poetics, dispersive art