Author: Ekbert Faas
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance -- the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic "guru" figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.
Young Robert Duncan
Author: Ekbert Faas
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance -- the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic "guru" figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance -- the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic "guru" figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.
Young Robert Duncan
Author: Ekbert Faas
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN: 9780876854907
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Black Sparrow Press
ISBN: 9780876854907
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The H.D. Book
Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272625
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272625
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
"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
Author: Michael Rumaker
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872865908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872865908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.
Selected Poems
Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
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.
China Dawn
Author: Robert Lipscomb Duncan
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006175995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006175995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Robert Duncan
Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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'.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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'.
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus
Author: Lisa Jarnot
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520234162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
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.)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520234162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
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.)
Innocence Turned Deadly
Author: Robert Duncan O'Finioan
Publisher: Grey Wanderer Publishing
ISBN: 9780615582344
Category : Paramilitary forces
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A young man is quietly invited to join the Unicorns, a shadowy paramilitary group claiming to work for the Department of Justice. Between the nightmare raids, take-downs and targeted assassinations he performs, Duncan soon realizes the corruption lies not only on the street but beneath the veil of the law and justice itself. He is ridding the world of corruption and drugs, one operation at a time but who does he really work for? And will the answer endanger his teammates who include both his best friend and the woman he loves?
Publisher: Grey Wanderer Publishing
ISBN: 9780615582344
Category : Paramilitary forces
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A young man is quietly invited to join the Unicorns, a shadowy paramilitary group claiming to work for the Department of Justice. Between the nightmare raids, take-downs and targeted assassinations he performs, Duncan soon realizes the corruption lies not only on the street but beneath the veil of the law and justice itself. He is ridding the world of corruption and drugs, one operation at a time but who does he really work for? And will the answer endanger his teammates who include both his best friend and the woman he loves?