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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
LIBRA PS3507.U629 Z72 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
- Duncan, Robert.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- United States.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Art and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Art and literature.
- History.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Childhood's Retreat
- 1 The Antediluvian World 3
- 2 Native Son of the Golden West 6
- 3 The Architecture 13
- 4 A Part in the Fabulous 21
- 5 The Wasteland 26
- 6 The Fathering Dream 34
- Part 2 Toward the Shaman
- 7 The Little Freshman Yes 43
- 8 A Company of Women 47
- 9 The Dance 53
- 10 From Romance to Ritual 61
- 11 Queen of the Whores 69
- 12 Enlisted 77
- 13 Marriage 82
- 14 Divorce 88
- Part 3 The Enamord Mage
- 15 The End of the War 95
- 16 The Round Table 101
- 17 The First Poetry Festival 105
- 18 The Venice Poem 109
- 19 Indian Tales 115
- 20 The Song of the Borderguard 118
- 21 The Way to Shadow Garden 124
- 22 The Workshop 131
- 23 Mallorca 135
- 24 Caesar's Gate 141
- Part 4 The Opening of the Field
- 25 The Meadow 149
- 26 New York Interlude 155
- 27 The San Francisco Scene 160
- 28 Olson, Whitehead, and the Magic Workshop 165
- 29 The Maidens 171
- 30 Elfmere 175
- 31 Night Scenes 180
- 32 H.D. 185
- 33 Go East 192
- 34 Apprehensions 197
- Part 5 The Nasty Aesthetician
- 35 The Will 203
- 36 The Playhouse 209
- 37 The Political Machine 214
- 38 Knight Errant 221
- 39 The Vancouver Conference 225
- 40 Bending the Bow 229
- 41 A Night Song 234
- 42 Anger 239
- 43 The Berkeley Conference 244
- 44 The Sixties 249
- Part 6 Domestic Scenes
- 45 The Household 261
- 46 The Summer of Love 266
- 47 Days of Rage 274
- 48 Ground-Work 280
- 49 Helter Skelter 285
- 50 Santa Cruz Propositions 290
- 51 The Torn Cloth 296
- 52 Despair in Being Tedious 303
- 53 The Cult of the Gods 310
- 54 Elm Park Road 314
- 55 Riverside 320
- 56 The Heart of Rime 327
- Part 7 Troubadour
- 57 An Alternate Life 339
- 58 Cambridge 346
- 59 The Avant-Garde 351
- 60 Adam, Eve, and Jahweh 355
- 61 San Francisco s Burning 361
- 62 At Sea 365
- 63 The Cherubim 370
- 64 Alaska 377
- 65 Enthralled 383
- Part 8 The Master of Rime
- 66 New College 389
- 67 Five Songs 394
- 68 A Paris Visit 399
- 69 Bard 404
- 70 The Baptism of the Blood 410
- 71 Hekatombe 415
- 72 The Year of Duncan 422
- 73 The Circulation of the Blood 429
- 74 In the Dark 432.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520234161
- 0520234162
- OCLC:
- 756591037
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