A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583944540 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His creative energy is inspiring and open and a great gift to the reader. This gathering is a treasury, as well as a proxy autobiography of a major American poet.” —David Meltzer, author of When I Was a Poet. Added to the mix is editor Christopher Wagstaff’s lucid contextualization of the interviews. These interviews are breathing shapes of consciousness.” —Michael McClure, author of Of Indigo and Saffron “It would be hard to overestimate the importance of this book. Like no other yet published, it exhibits the operations of the mind of a great American poet at play in the most diverse fields: social and political criticism; sexuality; philosophy; and of course literary history, theory, and poetics. Active and peaceful anarchist, and shaper of the best that was to come after him, Robert Duncan possessed genius that opened worlds. Duncan was always an amazing talker and thinker, and these in
The exchanges in this book are exciting and lively. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan "had the best ear this side of Dante." His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and Louis Zukofsky. This volume also includes a number of photographs never before published.. Ducan's fertile creative mind is also evident in these conversations: often coming back to Ezra Pound in these conversations, he gives one of the clearest expositions to be found anywhere on the scope and meaning of The Cantos. His recorded reflections are a means of discovery and exploration, and whether talking with a college student or a fellow po
He has also edited The Collected Poems of Madeline Gleason 1919-1979 (Talisman House, 1999) and A Sacred Quest: The Life and Writings of Mary Butts (McPherson & Co., 1995). He has curated numerous art exhibitions, showing the drawings and decorated books of Robert Duncan, among other art and literature, at University Art Museum, T