Robin Blaser Robert Duncan (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. TCR The Capilano Review 39, Fall 2009 contains a special section on Robin Blaser including a series of black & white photographs. Texts by: Robin Blaser, Lloyd Burritt, Harrison Birtwistle, Ralph Maud, Robert Swereda, Jonathan Ball, Rpbert Duncan, Ellen Tallman and others. 128 pages. Paper with stiff cover. Very good condition.…

Condition: As New. Near fine, minor tear on front cover, otherwise pristine. Illustrated with color images, and images of the art and writing of Duncan. Scarce and collectible.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No marks. Minimal wear. Poetry.

Newspaper. Condition: Good. See photos. Contents unmarked. Light shelf wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Sewn wrappers. 10pp. One of 50 copies sewn by hand, numbered, and signed by the author (of 500). Originally written for the first volume of 'The Collected Works of Robert Duncan', but the plan for the edition was revised. The essay did appear in a previous version in 'A Symposium of the Imagination: Robert Duncan in Word and Image'; it is published here as shuffaloff Monograph # 1. Upper wrapper lightly creased to the lower corner, mild creasing around the spine (probably in production), the lower wrapper slightly rubbed superficially. Nonetheless Very Good indeed, a very attractive production. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Features contributions a wide range of practitioners, including many from mid-20th century American poets: Amiri Baraka, Robin Blaser, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Ernest Fenollosa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, H.D., Lenore Kandel, D.H. Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jackson Mac Low, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein, Philip Whalen, Walt Whitman, John Wieners, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. An important companion anthology to Donald Allen's seminal New American Poetry anthology. Rubbing, bumping, some slight toning to wrappers. Some creasing to spine. Toning to pages. Internal contents free of marks. A very good copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Scarce. First issue of Measure: A Quarterly to the Poem &. Edited by poet John Wieners. The issue famously brought together poetry from different movements (Black Mountain, New York School, San Francisco Renaissance). A seminal work of mid-20th century American poetry publishing. Features poems by Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Ed Dorn, Larry Eigner, Fielding Dawson, Jonathan Williams, among others. Some spotting along edges of wrappers and some pages. Some bumping along edges. A very good copy free of internal markings.…

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A great and contrasting pairing (which occasioned some controversy) of two classic 1960's versions of Gerard de Nerval - the published translation by Robin Blaser, and a typescript translation by Robert Duncan. Their differing approaches to Nerval caused considerable controversy at the time, and have remained a topic of the scholarly ever since. From the library of noted American poet Denise Levertov, with her blindstamped library label to cover flap of Blaser's book, which is signed by Blaser. Laid in loose, as Levertov kept it, is a 5-page typescript (a carbon) of Robert Duncan's very different translation of Gerard de Nerval's 'Chimeras', a translation which differs somewhat from that which Duncan ultimately published, which expressed in poetic form his profound disagreement with Blaser. This Duncan translation likely dates from ca. April 22, 1966 or before, as Duncan discusses his translation and differences with Blaser on Nerval at length with Levertov in a letter of that date (see 'The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov', pages 525-526, where he mentions just having sent his version off to the journal 'Audit' with an essay attacking Blaser's work, published the prior year.…