<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This volume in the <i>Collected Writings of Robert Duncan</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays . . . a great help to all readers.-- "CHOICE"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert Duncan </b>(1919-1988) was one of the major writers in the San Francisco Renaissance movement and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential of the postwar American poets. A foremost figure among the New American and Black Mountain poets, Duncan, following the death of Charles Olson, became the leading practitioner of a nontraditional open form poetry. He is the author of T<i>he Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, </i> and <i>Bending the Bow, </i>among other works.<br /> <br /><b>James Maynard </b>is Associate Curator of the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, and has written extensively on the work of Robert Duncan. His other editorial projects include a new edition of Duncan's <i>Ground Work: Before the War/In the Dark </i>and <i>(Re: )Working the Ground: Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan.</i><br />
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