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Duncan, Robert Edward 1919-1988

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Works: 851 works in 1,202 publications in 11 languages and 21,738 library holdings
Genres: Comedies  American poetry  Artists' books  Broadsides 
Roles: Performer, Editor, Signer, Illustrator, Correspondent
Classifications: ps3507.u629, 811.54
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9 editions published between and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 973 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 865 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published between and 1997 in English and held by 602 libraries worldwide
Duncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetry's role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a "useful and portable compilation," says critic Tom Clark, that "provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of the Bay Area's greatest lyric poet." Editor Robert J. Bertholf has enlarged the original collection to include eleven additional poems and excerpts. The second edition of the Selected Poems fully fleshes out the retrospective of works chosen from the whole of Duncan's writing life. From his early poems through his final Ground Work volumes, as well as his serial poems, "Structures of Rime" and "Passages," composed over the course of thirty years, there emerges a prophetic voice of great perception.
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7 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 588 libraries worldwide
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14 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 451 libraries worldwide
Consists of an interview with Albert Gelpi, Stanford professor emeritus and co-editor of The letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov published in 2004 by Stanford University Press.
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13 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 439 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 1969 in English and held by 405 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 391 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 384 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1977 in English and held by 349 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in Undetermined and English and held by 329 libraries worldwide
A Selected Prose represents the most wide-ranging collection to date of Robert Duncan's essays and talks and is a companion volume to the Selected Poems (1993). Editor Robert J. Bertholf has taken three core essays from Fictive Certainties (1985), an earlier prose collection that was limited to works written after 1955; to these have been added a variety of Duncan's writings on contemporary artists and such fellow poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer. Included as well are "Rites of Participation," an excerpt from the still unpublished "H.D. Book"; a long meditation on Edmond Jabes' The Book of Questions, and a revised version of Duncan's controversial and provocative essay of 1944, "The Homosexual in Society."
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3 editions published in in English and held by 293 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 248 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 242 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 232 libraries worldwide
"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.
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5 editions published between and 1969 in English and held by 218 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 1973 in English and held by 215 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 200 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 177 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 166 libraries worldwide
 
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Bending the bow
Alternative Names
D., R. (Robert Duncan), 1919-1988
Duncan, Edward Howard.
Duncan, Edward Howard, 1919-1988
Duncan, Robert.
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
Duncan, Robert 1919-1988 M, Oxford companion Am. lit.
Duncan, Robert E. 1919-1988
Duncan, Robert Edward, 1919-1988
R. D. (Robert Duncan), 1919-1988
Symmes, Robert, 1919-1988
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