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Zusatztext "Lisa Jarnot's biography of Duncan should only stoke further interest in his work. She avoids the usual two pitfalls-worship and apostasy-by cleaving to a style so clean and free of editorializing or psychologizing that it reads like reportage. . . . The result is a book of just the facts: what! where! when and who. And yet Jarnot! a poet herself! is sensitive to the symbols and cycles that defined Duncan's imaginative life." Informationen zum Autor Lisa Jarnot is a poet and independent scholar. She has taught at Brooklyn College and the Naropa Institute and is the author of four books of poetry! including Ring of Fire and Night Scenes. Klappentext "This is a book of wonders! beautifully written and brilliantly researched. Lisa Jarnot offers a work of devotion to the truth and spirit of Robert Duncan's life and art! the result of twenty years of study and reflection. A great story as well as a rigorous exploration of the poet's art of the imagination! it will pull readers back into Duncan's poetry at the same time that it recounts his rich! adventurous! and always creative life."-Robert Adamson! author of The Goldfinches of Baghdad . "Lisa Jarnot's biography of Robert Duncan represents an essential contribution to our understanding of this complex! inspirited man! his life and art! and the many circles in which he moved through the years. It is one of those rare works that melds scholarly diligence with poetic comprehension."-Michael Palmer! author of Thread . "Robert Duncan was a poet of enormous means and complexity! one of the last to pursue a truly cosmological poetics. In that pursuit he was a poet (even a great poet)! who created - like Whitman before him - his own life with all its openings & pitfalls as beyond all else a life-of-poetry. Lisa Jarnot's biography now gives us a first! richly detailed depiction of that life! a powerful and necessary complement to Duncan's poetry itself. A product of the century behind us! it offers up a lasting legacy for the century to come."-Jerome Rothenberg! author of Technicians of the Sacred . Zusammenfassung Provides an account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. This title takes us 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 the many poets. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Michael Davidson Preface Acknowledgments Textual Notes Part One Childhood's Retreat 1 The Antediluvian World 2 Native Son of the Golden West 3 The Architecture 4 A Part in the Fabulous 5 The Wasteland 6 The Fathering Dream Part Two Toward the Shaman 7 The Little Freshman Yes 8 A Company of Women 9 The Dance 10 From Romance to Ritual 11 Queen of the Whores 12 Enlisted 13 Marriage 14 Divorce Part Three The Enamord Mage 15 The End of the War 16 The Round Table 17 The First Poetry Festival 18 The Venice Poem 19 Indian Tales 20 The Song of the Borderguard 21 The Way to Shadow Garden 22 The Workshop 23 Mallorca 24 Caesar's Gate Part Four The Opening of the Field 25 The Meadow 26 New York Interlude 27 The San Francisco Scene 28 Olson! Whitehead! and the Magic Workshop 29 The Maidens 30 Elfmere 31 Night Scenes 32 H.D. 33 Go East 34 Apprehensions Part Five The Nasty Aesthetician 35 The Will 36 The Playhouse 37 The Political Machine 38 Knight Errant 39 The ...
