Synopsis
Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance ― the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic “guru” figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.
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About the Author
Ekbert Faas was born in Berlin in 1938 and has lived in North America since 1972. A professor of humanities at the York University, Toronto, he is the author of Towards a New American Poetics (1978), The Genealogy of Aesthetics (2002), and Robert Creeley: A Biography (2005).
Review
"This book is terrific: I rank it among the top two or three literary biographies I have read. I thought I knew Robert, but I found I hardly knew the first thing about him. [Faas's] historical and objective biographical perspective . . . effects a kind of cultural canonization that Robert's heroic courage, intrepid eccentricity, and aesthetic integrity can sustain. I predict the book will prove to be one of the cardinal elements in Duncan's posthumous literary reputation." --William Everson
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Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet As Homosexual in Society
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Very Good hardcover in Near Fine- original transparent acetate jacket. All text block edges lightly foxed. Top edge of text block very heavily foxed. Signed issue; #33/125 numbered copies signed by Faas and Duncan. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 006155
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Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet As Homosexual in Society
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Near Fine- hardcover in Near Fine- original transparent acetate jacket. All text block edges lightly foxed. Signed issue; #32/125 numbered copies signed by Faas and Duncan. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 006154
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Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet As Homosexual in Society
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Limited First Edition, SIGNED by both Duncan and Faas without inscription on tipped in signature page at front and numbered 119 of 125 handbound signed copies on colophon at back. Boards are clean and square with only very faint signs of shelfwear. Covers open easily, but binding is sound. Pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. [AB-150]. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1529083864371
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 361pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spotting on the top page edge else near fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket with rubbing. Copy 106 of 125 Signed by Robert Duncan and Ekbert Fass. Seller Inventory # 528342