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The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess
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How the poet Robert Duncan and the artist Jess made the household part of their separate and collaborative creative practice.
“I'm a householder,” the poet Robert Duncan once explained. “My whole idea of being able to work was to have a household.” In this book, Tara McDowell examines the household (physical and conceptual) that Duncan established with the artist Jess, beginning in 1951 when the two men exchanged marriage vows, and ending with Duncan's death in 1988. For Duncan and Jess, the...