Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays

Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919—1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid— and late— 20th—century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958—1988), with...