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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays . . . a great help to all readers." * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: 1940s
1. An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn
2. The Homosexual in Society
3. What to Do Now
4. Reviewing View, an Attack
5. Poetics of Music: Stravinsky
6. The Poet and Poetry—A Symposium
Part II: 1950s
7. Pages from a Notebook
8. From a Notebook
9. Notes on Poetics regarding Olson’s Maximus
Part III: 1960s
10. Properties and Our REAL Estate
11. Ideas of the Meaning of Form
12. After For Love
13. Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads
14. Poetry before Language
15. The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound
16. The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante’s Divine Comedy
17. Introduction: William Everson, Single Source
18. Towards an Open Universe
19. The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography
20. A Critical Difference of View
21. Man’s Fulfillment in Order and Strife
22. Jack Spicer, Poet: 1925–1965
Part IV: 1970s
23. Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman
24. Notes on Grossinger’s Solar Journal: Oecological Sections
25. Iconographical Extensions
26. Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art
27. From Notes on the Structure of Rime
28. Preface to a Reading of Passages 1–22
29. Kopóltuš
30. Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery
31. An Art of Wondering
32. A Reading of Thirty Things
33. As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years
34. Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit
35. In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka
Part V: 1980s
36. Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems
37. The Adventure of Whitman’s Line
38. The Self in Postmodern Poetry
39. Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard’s Museum
40. Afterword: Beverly Dahlen, The Egyptian Poems
41. The Delirium of Meaning
Appendix: List of Uncollected Essays and Other Prose
Notes
Works Cited in the Essays
Acknowledgments of Permissions
Index
