num_pages: 96
description: "...he is and will be always the magister, the singular Master of the Dance." ―Robert Creeley Speaking of his own work, Robert Duncan (1919-1987) "I make poetry as other men make war or make love or make states or to exercise my faculties at large." The Opening of the Field , his first major collection, was originally brought out in 1960; in it, Duncan introduced his "Structures of Rime," the open series he continued in his subsequent collections, Roots and Branches (1964) and Bending the Bow (1968), Ground Before the War (1983), and Ground Work In the Dark (1987). "Structures of Rime" affirms his belief in the universal integrity of the poem itself in the living process of language. Thus in "The Structure of Rime I" he "O Lasting Sentence, / sentence after sentence I make in your image. In the feet that measure the dance of my pages I hear cosmic intoxications of the man I will be."
language: English
title: The Opening of the Field: Poetry
titlecomplete: The Opening of the Field: Poetry (New Directions Paperbook)
genres: The United States Of America, Poetry
ratings_count: 317
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: New Directions