Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus [electronic resource] : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
2012
PS3507.U629 Z72 2012eb
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Title
Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus [electronic resource] : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
Author
Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-
ISBN
9780520951945 (electronic book)
9780520234161
9780520234161
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 526 p.) : ill.
Call Number
PS3507.U629 Z72 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.54 B
Summary
This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot 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 and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together quotations from Duncan's notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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
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