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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. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New ...
Duncan was a syncretist possessing “a bridge-building, time-binding, and space-binding imagination” wrote Stephen Stepanchev in American Poetry since 1945. A typical Duncan poem, accordingly, is like a collage, “a compositional field where anything might enter: a prose quotation, a catalogue, a recipe, a dramatic monologue, a diatribe ...
1988. Read poems by this poet. Born on January 7, 1919, in Oakland, California, Robert Duncan began writing poetry as a teenager in Bakersfield, when a high school teacher encouraged his creative endeavors. In 1938, after two years at University of California, Berkeley, Duncan moved to New York and became involved in the downtown literary ...
Robert Duncan (born January 7, 1919, Oakland, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1988, San Francisco, California) 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 ...
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The literary materials of Robert Duncan are chiefly held by The Poetry Collection. For more information, contact James Maynard, Associate Curator. The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Robert Duncan papers, circa 1944-1966, including early letters, poem manuscripts and notebooks. Kent State University Libraries.
Robert Duncan 101. By Benjamin Voigt. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. 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 ...
When Duncan wrote “Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” in 1956, he was 37 years old and on the threshold of what he would come to refer to as his major work, namely the poems comprising his great trilogy of the 1960s, The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots & Branches (1964), and Bending the Bow (1968), along with the two volumes of ...
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