A Selected Prose

Duncan, Robert; Robert J. Berthoff

ISBN 10: 0811212785 / ISBN 13: 9780811212786

Published by New Directions, New York, 1995

About this Item

Very fine in VF dustjacket. | Edited by Robert J. Bertholf.

Seller Inventory # 010404

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Selected Prose
• Publisher: New Directions, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811212785
• ISBN 13: 9780811212786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

A Selected Prose represents the most wide-ranging collection to date of Robert Duncan's essays and talks and is a companion volume to the Selected Poems (1993).

Editor Robert J. Bertholf has taken three core essays from Fictive Certainties (1985), an earlier prose collection that was limited to works written after 1955; to these have been added a variety of Duncan's writings on contemporary artists and such fellow poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer. Included as well are "Rites of Participation, " an excerpt from the still unpublished "H.D. Book"; a long meditation on Edmond Jabes' The Book of Questions, and a revised version of Duncan's controversial and provocative essay of 1944, "The Homosexual in Society."

About the Author

Robert Duncan (1919–1988) was a 20th century American poet affiliated with the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movement.