| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 526 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
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Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. |
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Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. |
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Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Gay men. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
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20th century |
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Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and literature. |
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History. |
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Gay men. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
9780520234161 |
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9780520951945 |
| ISBN |
9780520951945 (electronic book) |
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0520951948 (electronic book) |
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1280699930 |
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9781280699931 |
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0520234162 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520234161 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520234161 |
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