Selected Poems

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New Directions Publishing, 1993 - 147 pages
Duncan composed over the course of twenty five years . He insisted on the value of the poem, the force of love in the human community, and the revelation of mythological presences in everyday events.His Selected Poems is an essential retrospective of works chosen from the whole course of his writing life as primary examples of his guiding attention as a poet.
 

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from Early Poems 193946
1
Medieval Scenes 1950
8
from A Book of Resemblances 195152
22
from Writing Writing 195253
28
from Letters 195556
35
from The Opening of the Field 1960
44
from Roots and Branches 1964
64
STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI
70
from Bending the Bow 1968
77
Before the War 1984
100
from Dante Études
116
In the Dark 1987
132
Index of Titles
145
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A leading poet of the San Francisco renaissance, Robert Duncan is a member of the international avant-garde. Born in Oakland, California, he has been an editor, a teacher at Black Mountain College and assistant director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State College. Highly regarded by fellow nonacademic poets, Duncan's poetry is at once learned and spontaneous. Its form seems at once innate and wrought, complex, and wonderfully musical. He received the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize (1960),a Guggenheim Memorial Award (1963), the Levinson Poetry Prize (1964), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1967), and the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize (1967). After a self-imposed silence of many years, Duncan published a challenging volume in 1984, The Ground Work, a book he designed himself. He continues to be one of the chief advocates for the poem as "wisdom literature" and not just personal expression or artifact.

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