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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Art and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Art and literature.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
- Duncan, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (564 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 "ations 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Textual Notes
- One. Childhood's Retreat
- Two. Toward the Shaman
- Three. The Enamord Mage
- Four. The Opening of the Field
- Five. The Nasty Aesthetician
- Six. Domestic Scenes
- Seven. Troubadour
- Eight. The Master of Rime
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613676917
- 9781280699931
- 1280699930
- 9780520951945
- 0520951948
- OCLC:
- 795894859
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