Download or read book The H D Book written by Robert Duncan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) developed into an expansive and unique quest for a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work into the 1960s and 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the writings of H.D., Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging work is especially notable for illuminating the role women played in creating literary modernism"--From publisher description.
Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including 'Letters: Poems 1953-1956'.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertholf's selections are so attuned to the essentials of Duncan's writing that even those familiar with the whole body of Duncan's work will become more sensitized to his recurring imagery and consistency of thought pattern throughout this collection. --Publishers Weekly.
Download or read book Reading Duncan Reading written by Stephen Collis and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, “No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors.” Part one emphasizes Duncan’s acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations—including Sarah Ehlers’s demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan’s early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry’s unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart’s exploration of Duncan’s use of “foreign words” to fashion “a language to which no one is native.” In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan—and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan’s derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey’s use of Duncan’s “would-be shaman,” Catherine Martin sees Duncan’s influence in Susan Howe’s “development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and ‘permission’ hold comparable sway,” and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson’s “reading to steal.” These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan’s own inexhaustible work.
Download or read book The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov written by Robert Edward Duncan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the complete correspondence between two of the most important and influential American poets of the postwar period. The almost 500 letters range widely over the poetry scene and the issues that made the period so lively and productive. But what gives the exchange its special personal and literary resonance is the sense of spiritual affinity and shared conviction about the power of the visionary imagination. Duncan and Levertov explore these matters in rich detail until, under the stress of dealing with the Vietnam War in poetry, they discover deep-seated differences in the religious and ethical convictions underlying their politics and poetic stance. The issues that drew them together and those that drove them apart create a powerful personal drama with far-reaching historical and cultural significance. The editors have provided a critical Introduction, full notes, a chronology, and a glossary of names.
Download or read book Robert Duncan The Ambassador from Venus written by Lisa Jarnot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a biography of Robert Duncan, one of America's great postwar poets. The author takes the reader from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for many poets and painters around him.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Download or read book Roots and Branches written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan's second major book of poetry (first published in 1964) is now reissued.
Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid- and late- 20th-century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books from this period: The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work. The biographical and critical introduction discusses Duncan as a late Romantic and postmodern American writer; his formulation of a homosexual poetics; his development of the serial poem; the notation and centrality of sound as organizing principle; his relations with such fellow poets as Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Jack Spicer; his indebtedness to Alfred North Whitehead; and his collaborations with the painter Jess Collins, his lifelong partner. Texts include his anti-war poems of the 1960s and 70s, his homages to Dante and other canonical poets, and his translations from the French of Gérard de Nerval, as well as the complete Structure of Rime and Passages series.
Download or read book The Opening of the Field written by Robert Duncan and published by New York, Grove P. This book was released on 1960 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes short lyric poems, a recurring sequence of prose poems called The Structure of Rime, and a long poem called Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar.
Download or read book Bending the Bow written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1968 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bending the Bow, Robert Duncan is writing on a scale which places him among the poets, after Walt Whitman, bold enough to attempt the personal epic, the large-canvas rendering of man's spirit in history as one man sees it, feels it, lives it, and makes it his own.
Download or read book Robert Duncan in San Francisco written by Michael Rumaker and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.
Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series gathers a far-reaching selection of Robert Duncan’s prose writings including most of his longer and more well-known essays along with other prose that has never been widely available. Ranging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, the forty-one titles reveal a great deal about Duncan’s life in poetry—including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors. Evocative and eclectic, this work delineates the intellectual contexts and sources of Duncan’s poetics, and opens a window onto the literary communities in which he participated.
Download or read book The Householders written by Tara McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innocence Turned Deadly written by Robert Duncan O'Finioan and published by Grey Wanderer Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man is quietly invited to join the Unicorns, a shadowy paramilitary group claiming to work for the Department of Justice. Between the nightmare raids, take-downs and targeted assassinations he performs, Duncan soon realizes the corruption lies not only on the street but beneath the veil of the law and justice itself. He is ridding the world of corruption and drugs, one operation at a time but who does he really work for? And will the answer endanger his teammates who include both his best friend and the woman he loves?
Download or read book Systematic Theology written by Robert Duncan Culver and published by Mentor. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous knowledge of theology demanded, this volume is written in an essentially readable way and is the perfect core to the library of anyone who loves to learn."This wide-ranging, well-directed, sharp-sighted textbook is his magnum opus. This one stands high as a demonstration of the biblical rationality of the Reformed faith." J. I.
Download or read book Ground Work written by Robert Duncan and published by New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ground Work: Before the War follows Robert Duncan's last collection of poetry by just over fifteen years. The silence was intentional, to permit the book to come into its own, at its own appointed time, and to allow new themes in his worldview to advance. ... Duncan now turns directly to the political issues of our sad history: love, death, and the mask worn by war and 'development,' behind which industrial-military power hides its contempt for nature and indeed all living beings."--Page [4] of cover.
Download or read book Poet Be Like God written by Lewis Ellingham and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965), a key figure in San Francisco’s gay cultural scene and in the development of American avant garde poetries.
