Books written by Robert Duncan

Guidance for the Seasons of Life Study Guide

Guidance for the Seasons of Life provides a 13 session study on the various stages of adult life. Learn how Scripture speaks to events, situations, dreams, hopes, and difficulties that occur generally along the timeline of adult life.
The H.D. Book

The initial occasion for the book, the invitation from Norman Holmes Pearson in 1960 to write a little piece on H.D. for her birthday, almost immediately began unfolding into something much larger. Duncan never settled on a definitive ...
Ground Work: Before the War, In the Dark

The internationally renowned poet Michael Palmer has written a marvelous introduction for this new edition, where "the singlemindedness of [Duncan's] life's work shows itself in the confident energy of every line" (Voice Literary ...
The H.D. Book

London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1924. Malraux, André. The Metamorphosis of the Gods. New York: Doubleday, 1960. ———. Psychology of Art. 3 vols. New York: Pantheon Books, 1949–50. McAlmon, Robert. Being Geniuses Together.
Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays

Verde, verde, que te quiero verde: Green, green, how I love you green (from Federico Garcia Lorca, “Romance Sonambulo” [Sleepwalker's Ballad]). ... I'd run across an essay on Muhammad—i Nasafi giving rise to the following poem ...
Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose

... 118, 119, 120, 121, 136, 177, 190, 198, 208 Lamantia, Philip, 14, 293, 348 Lang, Andrew, 164 Langland, William, 283 Lao-Tse/Lao-Tze/Lao-Tzu, 3, 40, 100, 336 Latimer, Hugh, 66 Latini, Brunetto, 12, 13 Laughlin, James, 341 Laurencin, ...
Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose

376 “There is more of Orpheus in Sophie Tucker than in R. P. Blackmur” Spicer, “The Poet and Poetry—A Symposium,” in One Night Stand, 92. 376 “One needs no Virgil . . . to lead Notes to Pages 373–376 498.
A Selected Prose

Not funny ha ha , but the other sense of humor , of darker humors : funny strange . Estranged . “ There is more of Orpheus in Sophie Tucker than in R. P. Blackmur , " Spicer says in the 1949 Symposium .
Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays

The publisher also gratefully acknowledges the support of the Leslie Scalapino Memorial Fund for Poetry, which was established by generous contributions to the UC Press Foundation by Thomas J. White and the Leslie Scalapino–O Books Fund ...
Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain during World War One

... H.A.L. 213 Fisher, John 180 food and alcoholic indulgence 177–80 canteens 168–74 in pubs 133–6, 166–8, 196–7 shortages 181–5 France 47–9, 50 Gardiner, F.G. 153 Geddes, eric 205 George v 79–83, 134–5, 204 Germany 2, 49–54 Gladstone, ...
Selected Poems

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 ...
Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde, 1900-1950 : Essays in Honour of Harry McShane

Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde, 1900-1950 : Essays in Honour of Harry McShane
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays

A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan’s books and magazine publications up to and ...
A Selected Prose

ISBN 0-8112-1278-5 $ 24.95 USA $ 32.99 CAN ROBERT DUNCAN A SELECTED PROSE Edited by Robert J. Bertholf Robert Duncan ( 1919-88 ) was a lyric poet with a universal vision whose knowledge of art and poetics ran as deep as his humanity .
Loudmouth: A Novel

Full of the famous, almost famous and just plain freaky -- Just Kids meets Jesus' Son -- Loudmouth is wild, funny and poignant, a novel of growing up while falling down.
The H.D. Book

This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets.
Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays

This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books ...
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays

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'. .
Roots and Branches: Poems

Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan's second major book of poetry (first published in 1964) is now reissued.
Bending the Bow

In Bending the Bow, Robert Duncan is writing on a scale which places him among the poets, after Walt Whitman, bold enough to attempt the personal epic, the large-canvas rendering of man's spirit in history as one man sees it, feels it, ...