| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 271 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary North American poetry series |
| Contents |
Introduction : The Poetics of Derivation / Stephen Collis -- Duncan Reading. Robert Duncan's Miltonic Persuasion : The Emergence of a Radical Poetic / Sarah E. Ehlers ; Robert Duncan's Derivative Poetics : Community, the Metaphysicals, and the Nature of War / George Fragopoulos ; Textual Poetics and the Politics of Reading in Duncan's "Night Scenes" / Siobhán Scarry ; The Airs of Duncan and Zukofsky / Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas ; Is the Queendom Enough (without the Queen)? : Poetic Abdication in Robert Duncan and Laura Riding / Graham Lyons ; Reading A/Drift : Robert Duncan's Use of Foreign Words / Clément Oudart -- Reading Duncan. Derivation or Stealth? : Quotation in the Poetry of Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson / Ross Hair ; Symposium of the Whole : Jerome Rothenberg and the Dream of "A Poetry of All Poetries" / Stephen Fredman ; How the Dead Prey upon Us : Robert Duncan and Susan Howe / Catherine Martin ; Divining the Derivers : Anarchism and the Practice of Derivative Poetics in Robert Duncan and John Cage / Andy Weave ; The Poets' War : Inflation, Complicity, and the Daimonic / J.P. Craig ; Talking Cosmos : Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson / Peter O'Leary |
| Summary |
In this book, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors." The essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan's own inexhaustible work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 fast |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Collis, Stephen, 1965-
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Lyons, Graham
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| LC no. |
2012006954 |
| ISBN |
9781609381349 |
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1609381343 |
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