Robert Duncan in San Francisco

Robert Duncan in San Francisco PDF Author: Michael Rumaker
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872865908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.

Robert Duncan in San Francisco

Robert Duncan in San Francisco PDF Author: Michael Rumaker
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872865908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.

The H.D. Book

The H.D. Book PDF Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272625
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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"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.

Robert Duncan in San Francisco

Robert Duncan in San Francisco PDF Author: Michael Rumaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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A newly expanded edition of an enduring classic, Robert Duncan in San Francisco is both a portrait of the premier poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a fascinating account of gay life in late 1950s America. Following his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-Howl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. His account of that time gives an unvarnished look at Duncan's magnetic personality and occasional failings, while delivering vivid snapshots of other significant poets like Jack Spicer, John Wieners, and Joanne Kyger against the backdrop of legendary North Beach haunts like The Place, Vesuvio, and City Lights Books. Contrasting Duncan's daringly frank homosexuality with his own then-closeted life, Rumaker conjures up with harrowing detail an era of police persecution of a largely clandestine gay community struggling to survive in the otherwise "open city" of San Francisco. First published in 1996, this expanded edition includes a selection of previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan, and an interview conducted for this edition, in which Rumaker provides further reflections on the poet and the period. Michael Rumaker has written several novels and short story collections, as well as the memoir Black Mountain Days. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Black Mountain College where Duncan served as his outside thesis advisor and Columbia University. He taught at City University of New York and the New School for Social Research.

Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus

Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus PDF Author: Lisa Jarnot
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520234162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555

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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.)

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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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.

Black Mountain Days

Black Mountain Days PDF Author: Michael Rumaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964902084
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Black Mountain Days, Michael Rumaker has written a touching, poetic memoir of Black Mountain College from 1952 to 1956. What were for the college its final four years were for Rumaker a sequence of journeys of creative and personal discovery that

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan PDF Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520324862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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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.

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan PDF Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Book Description
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'.

The Householders

The Householders PDF Author: Tara McDowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780262354110
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Roots and Branches

Roots and Branches PDF Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan's second major book of poetry (first published in 1964) is now reissued.