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Title Reading Duncan reading : Robert Duncan and the poetics of derivation / edited by Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 271 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary North American poetry series
Contemporary North American poetry series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Permissions; Introduction: The Poetics of Derivation -- Stephen Collis; Part One: Duncan Reading; One: Robert Duncan's Miltonic Persuasion: The Emergence of a Radical Poetic -- Sarah E. Ehlers; Two: Robert Duncan's Derivative Poetics: Community, the Metaphysicals, and the Nature of War -- George Fragopoulos; Three: Textual Poetics and the Politics of Reading in Duncan's "Night Scenes" -- Siobhán Scarry; Four: The Airs of Duncan and Zukofsky -- Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas; Five: Is the Queendom Enough (without the Queen)? Poetic Abdication in Robert Duncan and Laura Riding -- Graham Lyons.
Six: Reading A/Drift:Robert Duncan's Use of Foreign Words -- Clément OudartPart Two: Reading Duncan; Seven: Derivation or Stealth? Quotation in the Poetry of Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson -- Ross Hair; Eight: Symposium of the Whole: Jerome Rothenberg and the Dream of "A Poetry of All Poetries" -- Stephen Fredman; Nine: How the Dead Prey upon Us: Robert Duncan and Susan Howe -- Catherine Martin; Ten: Divining the Derivers: Anarchism and the Practice of Derivative Poetics in Robert Duncan and John Cage -- Andy Weave; Eleven: The Poets' War: Inflation, Complicity, and the Daimonic -- J.P. Craig.
Twelve: Talking Cosmos: Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson -- Peter O'LearyBibliography; Contributors; Index.
Summary In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors." Part one emphasizes Duncan's acts of reading, tracing a variety of his deriva.
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Subject Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
Criticism and interpretation.
American poetry.
American poetry.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Collis, Stephen, 1965-
Lyons, Graham, 1979-
Other Form: Print version: 9781609381165 1609381165 (DLC) 2012006954
ISBN 9781609381349 (electronic book)
1609381343 (electronic book)
1609381343
1609381165 (Paper)
9781609381165 (Paper)
Standard No. ebc1037834