(Re:)Working the Ground [electronic resource] : Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan /
Maynard, J.editor.
This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing.
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Cover; Halftitle; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Abbreviations; (Re:)Working the Ground: An Introduction James Maynard; Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Writings by Robert Duncan A Prospectus for the Prepublication Issue of "Ground Work" (excerpt) "Before the War: Preface" "In Passage"; 1 Into the Serial Forms of "The Regulators" Robert J. Bertholf; 2 Duncan Étude III: Intellectual Property or the Poetic Commons Stephen Collis
3 Before Caesar's Gate, Robert Duncan Comes to Grief: The Vietnam War and the "Unengendered Child" Stephen Fredman4 Robert Duncan's Craft Exchanges: Doing Ground Work in the Pastoral Jeff Hamilton; 5 The Needs of Ghosts: On Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's "Moly" Devin Johnston; 6 Robert Duncan's Radical Humanism;  or, On the Crises of Reading and Falling in Love Eric Keenaghan; 7 Duncan's Celestial Hierarchy Peter O'Leary; 8 Genreading and Underwriting (in) Robert Duncan's Ground Work Clément Oudart; 9 Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing Writing to Ground Work II Brian M. Reed
10 The Story Told of What Cannot Be Told Dennis Tedlock11 "[T]he poem / as a shatterd pitcher of rock crystal": "An Essay at War" as Groundwork for Robert Duncan'sLater Poetry Kimberlee Winter; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing.
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
Poetry.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Poetry and Poetics.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.