Research Catalog

Title

Letters, poems mcmliii-mcmlvi.

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988

Publication

[Highlands, N.C. : Jonathan Williams, c1958]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008
• Fredericks, Claude
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

[44] p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Jargon ; 14

Uniform Title

• Jargon ; 14.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Indexed In (note)

• Bertholf, R.J. Robert Duncan,

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. For a muse meant (letters for Denise Levertov) -- ii. Distant counsels of Artaud (for Philip Lamantia) -- iii. Upon taking hold (for Charles Olson) -- iv. First invention on the theme of the Adam -- v. Short invention on the theme of the Adam -- vi. Figures of speech (for Helen Adam) -- vii. Metamorphosis -- viii. With bells shaking -- ix. Light song (for Charles Olson) -- x. It's spring. Love's spring -- xi. At the end of a period (for Helen Adam) -- xii. Fragment -- True to life (for Charles Olson) -- xiv. Upon his seeing a baby holding the four of hearts for him and another card conceald (for Robert Creeley) -- xv. Words open out upon grief -- xvi. Riding -- xvii. At home -- xviii. The human communion. -- Traces -- xix. Passages of a sentence -- xx. Re- (for Mike and Jo Ann McClure) -- xxi. Brought to love -- xxii. To vow -- xxiii. Spelling the word -- xxiv. Correspondences -- xxv. August sun -- xxvi. Source -- xxvii. An owl is an only bird of poetry (a vale for James Broughton) -- xxviii. New tidings -- xxix. Changing trains -- xxx. The language of love, siren song.

OCLC

• 4466064
• SCSB-11184809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library