Research Catalog

Title

Robert Duncan : scales of the marvelous / edited with an introduction by Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W. Reid.

Publication

New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bertholf, Robert J.
• Reid, Ian, 1943-
• Jess, 1923-2004.
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Strohbach, Hermann (Designer)
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

x, 245 p. : ports.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

• Insights, working papers in contemporary criticism
• New Directions paperbook ; 487
• NDP487

Subject

• Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Criticism and interpretation
• Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Portraits

Genre/Form

• Wrappers (Binding).
• Autographs (Provenance).

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
• Frontispiece drawing of Duncan by Jess Collins.
• Bound in printed paper wrappers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Hermann Strohbach; frontispiece drawing of Robert Duncan by Jess Collins.

Contents

In the beginning, or recatching the years as catches with Robert Duncan, in the years 1942 and 1945-46 / Hamilton and Mary Tyler -- A conversation with Joanna and Michael McClure / Robert J. Bertholf -- Exercises in disorder : Duncan's imitations of Gertrude Stein / Jayne L. Walker -- A few notes on Robert Duncan / Helen Adam -- The question of wisdom as such / Don Byrd -- A book of first things : the opening of the field / Michael Davidson -- Some Duncan letters--a memoir and a critical tribute / Denise Levertov -- Heroic survival through ecstatic form : Robert Duncan's roots and branches / Eric Mottram -- Homosexuality in Robert Duncan's poetry / Thom Gunn -- The plural text : 'passages' / Ian W. Reid -- Uroboros : Dante and a seventeenth century suite / Nathaniel Mackey -- Robert Duncan and the power to cohere / Gerrit Lansing -- A note about Robert Duncan and music / Lou Harrison -- 'Untitled', 'Etching of Robert Duncan' / R.B. Kitaj -- Duncan's Celtic mode / Sean Golden -- An inheritance of spirit : Robert Duncan and Walt Whitman / Mark Johnson and Robert DeMott -- Robert Duncan : a selected checklist.

Call Number

Berg Coll Duncan ZA2 R73 1979

ISBN

0811207358

LCCN

79019663

OCLC

5310399

Title

Robert Duncan : scales of the marvelous / edited with an introduction by Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W. Reid.

Imprint

New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1979.

Series

Insights, working papers in contemporary criticism

New Directions paperbook ; 487

NDP487

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, p. 96

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-779 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Hermann Strohbach; frontispiece drawing of Robert Duncan by Jess Collins. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-779 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy signed by Duncan on half-title with drawing.

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Added Author

Bertholf, Robert J. editor, writer of introduction

Reid, Ian, 1943- editor, writer of introduction

Jess, 1923-2004. artist, ill.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Strohbach, Hermann (Designer), cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Signer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Duncan ZA2 R73 1979

Berg Coll 22-779