| A Selected Prose Contributor(s): Duncan, Robert (Author), Bertholf, Robert J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0811212785 ISBN-13: 9780811212786 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: A Selected Prose represents the most wide-ranging collection to date of Robert Duncan's essays and talks and is a companion volume to the Selected Poems (1993). Editor Robert J. Bertholf has taken three core essays from Fictive Certainties (1985), an earlier prose collection that was limited to works written after 1955; to these have been added a variety of Duncan's writings on contemporary artists and such fellow poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer. Included as well are "Rites of Participation", an excerpt from the still unpublished "H.D. Book"; a long meditation on Edmond Jabes' The Book of Questions, and a revised version of Duncan's controversial and provocative essay of 1944, "The Homosexual in Society". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 94012983 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.29" W x 9.32" (1.10 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Editor Robert J. Bertholf has taken three core essays from Fictive Certainties (1985), an earlier prose collection that was limited to works written after 1955; to these have been added a variety of Duncan's writings on contemporary artists and such fellow poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer. Included as well are Rites of Participation, an excerpt from the still unpublished H.D. Book; a long meditation on Edmond Jabes' The Book of Questions, and a revised version of Duncan's controversial and provocative essay of 1944, The Homosexual in Society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Duncan, Robert: - Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a 20th century American poet affiliated with the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movement. |