Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography Hardcover - 2012
by Lisa Jarnot; Foreword by Michael Davidson
From the rear cover
"This is a book of wonders, beautifully written and brilliantly researched. Lisa Jarnot offers a work of devotion to the truth and spirit of Robert Duncan's life and art, the result of twenty years of study and reflection. A great story as well as a rigorous exploration of the poet's art of the imagination, it will pull readers back into Duncan's poetry at the same time that it recounts his rich, adventurous, and always creative life."--Robert Adamson, author of The Goldfinches of Baghdad.
"Lisa Jarnot's biography of Robert Duncan represents an essential contribution to our understanding of this complex, inspirited man, his life and art, and the many circles in which he moved through the years. It is one of those rare works that melds scholarly diligence with poetic comprehension."--Michael Palmer, author of Thread.
"Robert Duncan was a poet of enormous means and complexity, one of the last to pursue a truly cosmological poetics. In that pursuit he was a poet (even a great poet), who created - like Whitman before him - his own life with all its openings & pitfalls as beyond all else a life-of-poetry. Lisa Jarnot's biography now gives us a first, richly detailed depiction of that life, a powerful and necessary complement to Duncan's poetry itself. A product of the century behind us, it offers up a lasting legacy for the century to come."--Jerome Rothenberg, author of Technicians of the Sacred.
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- Title Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography
- Author Lisa Jarnot; Foreword by Michael Davidson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2012-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520234161 / 0520234162
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.42 x 1.53 in (23.44 x 16.31 x 3.89 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Poets, American - 20th century, Gay men - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012015163
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/2012, Page 17
- Choice, 02/01/2013, Page 0
- Foreword, 08/30/2012, Page 0
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