Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-23416-1
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 932 g

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), one of America’s great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan’s birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together quotations from Duncan’s notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jarnot, Lisa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davidson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Michael Davidson

Preface

Acknowledgments

Textual Notes

Part One
Childhood’s Retreat
1 The Antediluvian World

2 Native Son of the Golden West

3 The Architecture

4 A Part in the Fabulous

5 The Wasteland

6 The Fathering Dream

Part Two
Toward the Shaman
7 The Little Freshman Yes

8 A Company of Women

9 The Dance

10 From Romance to Ritual

11 Queen of the Whores

12 Enlisted

13 Marriage

14 Divorce

Part Three
The Enamord Mage
15 The End of the War

16 The Round Table

17 The First Poetry Festival

18 The Venice Poem

19 Indian Tales

20 The Song of the Borderguard

21 The Way to Shadow Garden

22 The Workshop

23 Mallorca

24 Caesar’s Gate

Part Four
The Opening of the Field
25 The Meadow

26 New York Interlude

27 The San Francisco Scene

28 Olson, Whitehead, and the Magic Workshop

29 The Maidens

30 Elfmere

31 Night Scenes

32 H.D.

33 Go East

34 Apprehensions

Part Five
The Nasty Aesthetician
35 The Will

36 The Playhouse

37 The Political Machine

38 Knight Errant

39 The Vancouver Conference

40 Bending the Bow

41 A Night Song

42 Anger

43 The Berkeley Conference

44 The Sixties

Part Six
Domestic Scenes
45 The Household

46 The Summer of Love

47 Days of Rage

48 Ground-Work

49 Helter Skelter

50 Santa Cruz Propositions

51 The Torn Cloth

52 Despair in Being Tedious

53 The Cult of the Gods

54 Elm Park Road

55 Riverside

56 The Heart of Rime

Part Seven
Troubadour
57 An Alternate Life

58 Cambridge

59 The Avant-Garde

60 Adam, Eve, and Jahweh

61 San Francisco’s Burning

62 At Sea
63 The Cherubim

64 Alaska

65 Enthralled

Part Eight
The Master of Rime
66 New College

67 Five Songs

68 A Paris Visit

69 Bard

70 The Baptism of the Blood

71 Hekatombe

72 The Year of Duncan

73 The Circulation of the Blood

74 In the Dark

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Jarnot is a poet and independent scholar. She has taught at Brooklyn College and the Naropa Institute and is the author of four books of poetry, including Ring of Fire and Night Scenes.