A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985

Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of the major postwar American poets, was an adulated figure among his contemporaries, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan "had the best ear this side of Dante." His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and Louis Zukofsky.

Like his poetry, Duncan's conversation is generative and multi-directional, pushing out the boundaries of ...