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Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988 [1]) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition [2] who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. [3]
Robert Duncan died in San Francisco in 1988 after a long battle with kidney disease. His papers are housed at the State University of New York-Buffalo. Even after his death, Duncan has continued to exert a powerful and profound influence on the shape of American poetry.
Robert Duncan was an American poet, a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets in the 1950s. Duncan attended the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936–38 and 1948–50. He edited the Experimental Review from 1938 to 1940 and traveled widely thereafter, lecturing on poetry in the United.
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Born on January 7, 1919, in Oakland, California, Robert Duncan took an active role in emerging arts movements and communitites at the time—including Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, the San Francisco Renaissance and Black Mountain College—and developed a style uniquely his own.
Dec 12, 2007 · Described by Kenneth Rexroth as “one of the most accomplished, one of the most influential” of the postwar American poets, Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led...
Sep 18, 2012 · A new biography shows how the poet Robert Duncan fed a line backward into the labyrinthine history of human imagination.
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Oct 23, 2018 · Few poets were as central to the postwar American poetry scene as Robert Duncan. He was a key figure of both the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain poets and carried on long (if sometimes combative) correspondences with avant-garde writers such as Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov.
