Duncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetry's role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a "useful and portable compilation," says critic Tom Clark, that "provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of the Bay Area's greatest lyric poet." Editor Robert J. Bertholf has enlarged the original collection to include eleven additional poems and excerpts. The second edition of the Selected Poems fully fleshes out the retrospective of works chosen from the whole of Duncan's writing life. From his early poems through his final Ground Work volumes, as well as his serial poems, "Structures of Rime" and "Passages," composed over the course of thirty years, there emerges a prophetic voice of great perception.

Author: Robert Duncan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/17/1997
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.18w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780811213455
2nd Revised, Enlarg Edition


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/1997 pg. 97

About the Author
Duncan, Robert: - Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a 20th century American poet affiliated with the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movement.