Reading Duncan reading : Robert Duncan and the poetics of derivation / edited by Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collis, Stephen, 1965-

Lyons, Graham.

Series:

Contemp North American Poetry

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988--Criticism and interpretation.

Duncan, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors." Part one emphasizes Duncan's acts of reading, tracing a variety of his deriva

Contents:

Contents; Permissions; Introduction: The Poetics of Derivation - Stephen Collis; Part One: Duncan Reading; One: Robert Duncan's Miltonic Persuasion: The Emergence of a Radical Poetic - Sarah E. Ehlers; Two: Robert Duncan's Derivative Poetics: Community, the Metaphysicals, and the Nature of War - George Fragopoulos; Three: Textual Poetics and the Politics of Reading in Duncan's "Night Scenes" - Siobhán Scarry; Four: The Airs of Duncan and Zukofsky - Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas; Five: Is the Queendom Enough (without the Queen)? Poetic Abdication in Robert Duncan and Laura Riding - Graham Lyons

Six: Reading A/Drift:Robert Duncan's Use of Foreign Words - Clément OudartPart Two: Reading Duncan; Seven: Derivation or Stealth? Quotation in the Poetry of Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson - Ross Hair; Eight: Symposium of the Whole: Jerome Rothenberg and the Dream of "A Poetry of All Poetries" - Stephen Fredman; Nine: How the Dead Prey upon Us: Robert Duncan and Susan Howe - Catherine Martin; Ten: Divining the Derivers: Anarchism and the Practice of Derivative Poetics in Robert Duncan and John Cage - Andy Weave; Eleven: The Poets' War: Inflation, Complicity, and the Daimonic - J. P. Craig

Twelve: Talking Cosmos: Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson - Peter O'LearyBibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609381349

1609381343

OCLC:

813286367