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Learn about Robert Duncan, a postwar American poet influenced by myth, occultism, and projective verse. Explore his life, poetry, and legacy in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain school.
- Robert Duncan 101
Few poets were as central to the postwar American poetry...
- Often I Am Permitted to Return To
I first read Robert Duncan’s “Often I Am Permitted to Return...
- The Made Place
robert duncan: "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow,...
- Risk
March 1963 | Lee Anderson, Archilochos, Dorothy Donnelly,...
- Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis - Robert Duncan | Poetry Foundation
- A Ride to The Sea
September 1957 | Karl Shapiro, Robert Duncan, Isabella...
- Robert Duncan 101
Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco.
Robert Duncan (born 27 July 1952) is an English actor. He is best known for his television role as Gus Hedges, the jargon-speaking manager, from Drop the Dead Donkey. He also appeared in Casualty as Peter Hayes between 1995 and 1996 and as Lazarus in the 2000 film The Miracle Maker.
Learn about Robert Duncan, a major poet of the twentieth century who influenced the San Francisco Renaissance and Black Mountain College. Explore his life, works, and poetics, influenced by theosophy, surrealism, and projective verse.
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.
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I first read Robert Duncan’s “Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” on a beautifully permissive afternoon in the spring shade of leafy deciduous trees on the campus of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. It was 1989.
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.
