Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society

Ekbert Faas

ISBN 10: 0876854897 / ISBN 13: 9780876854891

Published by Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876854897
• ISBN 13: 9780876854891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Perfect
• Dust Jacket Condition: Perfect
• Weight: 1 pound
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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.

About the Author

With 36 pages of black-&-white photographs and an Appendix collecting six early uncollected prose pieces by Robert Duncan, including "The Homosexual in Society" and "Love: A Story"
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).