{"product_id":"robert-duncan-9780520259294","title":"Robert Duncan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of poetry and plays that presents annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from author's middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books, The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Includes some of Duncan's finest essays ... a great help to all readers.\" CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Acknowledgments       Introduction: Discovery Making       The Opening of the Field (1960)    Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow -    The Dance     The Law I Love Is Major Mover     The Structure of Rime I     The Structure of Rime II     A Poem Slow Beginning     The Structure of Rime III     The Structure of Rime IV     The Structure of Rime V     The Structure of Rime VI     The Structure of Rime VII     Three Pages from a Birthday Book     This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom     The Ballad of the Enamord Mage     The Ballad of Mrs Noah     The Maiden     The Propositions     Four Pictures of the Real Universe     Evocation     Of Blasphemy     Nor Is the Past Pure    Crosses of Harmony and Disharmony     A Poem of Despondencies     Poetry, a Natural Thing     Keeping the Rhyme     A Song of the Old Order     The Question     The Performance We Wait For     At Christmas     Proofs     Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face     Yes, as a Look Springs to Its Face,     A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar     The Structure of Rime VIII     The Structure of Rime IX     The Structure of Rime X     The Structure of Rime XI     A Storm of White     Atlantis     Out of the Black     Bone Dance     Under Ground     The Natural Doctrine     The Structure of Rime XII     The Structure of Rime XIII     Another Animadversion     After Reading Barely and Widely     Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal     Food for Fire, Food for Thought    Uncollected Work 1957--1960    A Stray Poem (Notes Reading from Rene Fulop-Miller's The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits)    Melville after Pierre    Solitude    The Song of the River to Its Shores    Pre-face    I Saw the Rabbit Leap    Roots and Branches (1964)    Roots and Branches    Roots and Branches    What Do I Know of the Old Lore?    Night Scenes    A Sequence of Poems for H.D.'s Birthday    A Letter    Nel Mezzo del Cammin di Nostra Vita    A Dancing Concerning a Form of Women    The Law    Apprehensions    Sonneries of the Rose Cross    Now the Record Now Record    Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake    Cover Images    Come, Let Me Free Myself    Risk    Four Songs the Night Nurse Sang    Structure of Rime XV    Structure of Rime XVI    Structure of Rime XVII    Structure of Rime XVIII    Osiris and Set    Windings    Two Presentations    After a Passage in Baudelaire    Shelley's Arethusa Set to New Measures    After Reading H.D.'s Hermetic Definitions    Strains of Sight    Doves    Returning to the Rhetoric of an Early Mode    Two Entertainments    The Ballad of the Forfar Witches' Sing    A Country Wife's Song     What Happened : Prelude    A Set of Romantic Hymns    Thank You for Love    From The Mabinogion    Forced Lines    A New Poem (for Jack Spicer)    Sonnet 1    Sonnet 2    Sonnet 3    Answering    Adam's Way: A Play upon Theosophical Themes    Cyparissus    A Part-Sequence for Change    Structure of Rime XIX    Structure of Rime XX    Structure of Rime XXI    The Continent    Uncollected Work 1961--1964    A Play with Masks    Weaving the Design    Old Testament    New Testament    Bending the Bow (1968)    Introduction     Sonnet 4     Structure of Rime XXII    5th Sonnet     Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing     Bending the Bow     Tribal Memories Passages 1    At the Loom Passages 2    What I Saw Passages 3    Where It Appears Passages 4    The Moon Passages 5    The Collage Passages 6    Envoy Passages 7    Structure of Rime XXIII     As in the Old Days Passages 8    The Architecture Passages 9    These Past Years Passages 10    Shadows Passages 11    Wine Passages 12    Structure of Rime XXIV     Structure of Rime XXV     Reflections    The Fire Passages 13    Chords Passages 14    Spelling Passages 15    A Lammas Tiding     My Mother Would Be a Falconress     Saint Graal (after Verlaine)     Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine)    The Currents Passages 16    Moving the Moving Image Passages 17    The Torso Passages 18    The Earth Passages 19    Structure of Rime XXVI: For Kenneth Anger An Illustration Passages 20    The Multiversity Passages 21    In the Place of a Passage 22     Benefice Passages 23    Orders Passages 24    Up Rising Passages 25    The Chimeras of Gerard de Nerval     El Desdichado (The Disinherited)    Myrtho     Horus    Anteros    Delphica     Artemis     The Christ in the Olive Grove     Golden Lines     Earth's Winter Song     Moira's Cathedral     A Shrine to Ameinias     Narrative Bridges for Adam's Way     The Soldiers Passages 26    An Interlude     Transgressing the Real Passages 27    The Light Passages 28    Eye of God Passages 29    Stage Directions Passages 30    God-Spell     Epilogos     Uncollected Work 1965--1968    At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley after the New York Style    We heard it as a cry. It was the Word.    Keeping the War Inside    Yes I care deeply and yet    Christmas Present, Christmas Presence!    From a Poem by John Ashbery    If I Had Kin    Ground Work: Before the War (1984)    Some Notes on Notation    Achilles' Song     Ancient Questions     A Song from the Structures of Rime Ringing as the Poet Paul Celan Sings    Despair in Being Tedious     The Concert Passages 31 (Tribunals)     Ancient Reveries and Declamations Passages 32 (Tribunals)     Transmissions Passages 33 (Tribunals)     The Feast Passages 34 (Tribunals)     Before the Judgment Passages 35 (Tribunals)     Santa Cruz Propositions     A Glimpse     And If He Had Been Wrong for Me     For Me Too, I, Long Ago Shipping Out with the Cantos    And Hell Is the Realm of God's Self-Loathing     Childhood's Retreat     Fragments of an Albigensian Rime     O! Passages 37    Bring It Up from the Dark     Structure of Rime XXVII     Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens    Over There    The Museum     Interrupted Forms    Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's Moly     Preface to the Suite     The Moly Suite     Near Circe's House     Rites of Passage: I     Moly    Rites of Passage: II     A Seventeenth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in English Poetry (1590--1690)     1. Love's a great courtesy to be declared    2. Sir Walter Ralegh, What Is Our Life?     3. Go as in a dream     4. Robert Southwell, the Burning Babe    5. \"A pretty Babe\"--that burning Babe     6. George Herbert, Jordan (I)     7. George Herbert, Jordan (II)    8. These Lines Composing Themselves in My Head as I Awoke Early This Morning, It Being Still Dark, December 16, 1971  Passages 36    9. Ben Jonson, Hymenaei: Or the Solemnities of Masque, and Barriers     10. John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to Darkness     Coda      Dante Etudes    Preface    Book One     We Will Endeavor     Secondary Is the Grammar     A Little Language     To Speak My Mind     Everything Speaks to Me     In the Way of a Question     Speech Directed     Enricht in the Increment     The Individual Man     Of Empire     The Meaning of Each Particular     The Whole Potentiality     The Work     The Household     Let Him First Drink of the Fountain     And Tho They Have No Vowel     Letting the Beat Go     Book Two     A Hard Task in Truth     Lovely      The One Rule     Our Art but to Articulate     In Nothing Superior     Enacted     On Obedience     Zealous Liberality     We Convivial in What Is Ours!     Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into Rime in Prose in Translating Dante's Convivio     Go, My Songs, Even as You Came to Me     Book Three     My Soul Was as If Free     Nor Dream in Your Hearts     For the Sea Is God's     Where the Fox of This Stench Sulks     In Truth Doth She Breathe Out Poisonous Fumes     Then Many a One Sang     In My Youth Not Unstaind     And a Wisdom as Such     Four Supplementary Etudes     Of Memory     Hers    I Too Trembling     But We, to Whom the World Is     The Missionaries Passages    The Torn Cloth     Songs of an Other     Empedoklean Reveries Passages    Jamais Passages    An Interlude of Winter Light     \"Eidolon of the Aion\"     The Presence of the Dance{ths}\/{ths}The Resolution of the Music     Circulations of the Song     Uncollected Work 1969--1982     O tree of lights! tree of colors    Childless    After Shakespeare's Sonnet 76    Second Take on Shakespeare's Sonnet 76    She    Something Is Moving    A Fantasy Piece for Helen Adam    Feb. 22, 1973    I have{ths}\/{ths}nothing to go on    A Prepucal Face for Nigel Roberts    Johnny's Thing    An Epithalamium    Poe et Cie    Let Me Join You Again This Morning, Walt Whitman    Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987)    An Alternate Life     In the South     Homecoming     Supplication     The Quotidian     To Master Baudelaire    Toward His Malaise     Among His Words     The Face     At Cambridge an Address to Young Poets Native to the Land of My Mothertongue    Le Sonnet Ou Sonne la Sonnette des Dernieres Jours Toujours Fait Son Retour    Pour Souffrir l'Envie Jusqu'a l'Amour en Vie     Sets of Syllables, Sets of Words, Sets of Lines, Sets of Poems Addressing: Veil, Turbine, Cord, \u0026amp; Bird     Preliminary Exercise    Notes during a Lecture on Mathematics    The Recall of the Star Miraflor    The Naming of the Time Ever     I Pour Forth My Life from This Bough     The Turbine     What the Sonnet Means the Sonnet Means     For the Assignment of the Spirit     The Cherubim (I)     The Cherubim (II)     Styx     The Sentinels     An Eros\/Amor\/Love Cycle     Et Passages    In Wonder Passages    Constructing the Course of a River in the Pyrenees     In Waking     From the Fall of 1950, December 1980     Two Sets of Tens: Derived from Confucian Analects     Regulators Set of Passages    The Dignities Passages    The First Passages    Stimmung Passages    Enthralld Passages    Quand le Grand Foyer Descend dans les Eaux Passages    In Blood's Domaine Passages    After Passage Passages    With In Passages    Seams Passages    You, Muses Passages    Structure of Rime: Of the Five Songs    The Five Songs     Whose Passages    Close     At the Door     Illustrative Lines     After a Long Illness     Uncollected Work 1983--1988     In Passage    Hekatombe        Appendix: Table of Contents for Roots and Branches    Notes    Selected Bibliography    Index of Titles and First Lines","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402837696855,"sku":"9780520259294","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520259294.jpg?v=1730481651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/robert-duncan-9780520259294","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}