Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus : A Biography.
Title:
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus : A Biography.
Author:
Jarnot, Lisa.
ISBN:
9780520951945
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (444 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 Vancouver Conference -- 40 · Bending the Bow -- 41 · A Night Song -- 42 · Anger -- 43 · The Berkeley Conference -- 44 · The Sixties -- Part Six Domestic Scenes -- 45 · The Household -- 46 · The Summer of Love -- 47 · Days of Rage -- 48 · Ground-Work -- 49 · Helter Skelter -- 50 · Santa Cruz Propositions -- 51 · The Torn Cloth -- 52 · Despair in Being Tedious -- 53 · The Cult of the Gods -- 54 · Elm Park Road -- 55 · Riverside -- 56 · The Heart of Rime -- Part Seven Troubadour -- 57 · An Alternate Life -- 58 · Cambridge -- 59 · The Avant-Garde -- 60 · Adam, Eve, and Jahweh -- 61 · San Francisco's Burning -- 62 · At Sea.
63 · The Cherubim -- 64 · Alaska -- 65 · Enthralled -- Part Eight The Master of Rime -- 66 · New College -- 67 · Five Songs -- 68 · A Paris Visit -- 69 · Bard -- 70 · The Baptism of the Blood -- 71 · Hekatombe -- 72 · The Year of Duncan -- 73 · The Circulation of the Blood -- 74 · In the Dark -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Credits -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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