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Title

Ground work : Before the war/In the dark / Robert Duncan ; introduction by Michael Palmer.

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Publication

New York, NY : New Directions Book, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Bertholf, Robert J.
• Maynard, James.
• New Directions Publishing.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xv, 272 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 1030

Note

• First work originally published: Ground work: before the war. New York : New Directions Pub., 1984. 2nd work published: Ground work II: in the dark. New York : New Directions Pub., 1987.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Achilles' song -- Ancient questions -- A song from the structures of rime ringing as the poet Paul Celan sings -- Despair in being tedious -- The concert, Passages 31 (Tribunals) -- Ancient reveries and declamations, Passages 32 (Tribunals) -- Transmissions, Passages 33 (Tribunals) -- The feast, Passages 34 (Tribunals) -- Before the judgment, Passages 35 (Tribunals) -- Santa Cruz propositions -- A glimpse -- And if he had been wrong for me -- For me too, I, long ago shipping out with the Cantos -- And hell is the realm of God's self-loathing -- Childhood's retreat -- Fragments of an Albigensian rime -- O!, Passages 37 -- Bring it up from the dark -- Structure of rime XXVII -- In memoriam Wallace Stevens, Structure of Rime XXVIII -- Over there -- The museum -- Interrupted forms -- Preface to the Suite, The Moly Suite -- Near Circe's house -- Rites of passage: I -- Moly -- Rites of passage: II -- "Love's a great courtesy to be declared" -- Sir Walter Ralegh, What is our life? -- "Go as in a dream" -- Robert Southwell, The burning babe -- "A pretty babe'--that burning babe" -- George Herbert, Jordan (I) -- George Herbert, Jordan (II) -- Passages 36 -- Ben Jonson, HYMENAEI: or The solemnities of Masque, and Barriers -- John Norris of Bemerton, Hymne to darkness -- Coda -- We will endeavor -- Secondary is the grammar -- A little language -- To speak my mind -- Everything speaks to me -- In the way of a question -- Speech directed -- Enricht in the increment -- The individual man -- Of empire -- The meaning of each particular -- The whole potentiality -- The work -- The household -- Let him first drink of the fountain -- And tho they have no vowel -- Letting the beat go -- A hard task in truth -- Lovely -- the one rule -- Our art but to articulate -- In nothing superior -- Enacted -- On obedience -- Zealous liberality -- We convivial in what is ours! -- Mr. Philip Wicksteed Stumbling into rime in prose in translating Dante's Convivio -- Go, my songs, even as you.
• came to me -- My soul was as if free -- Nor dream in your hearts -- For the sea is God's -- Where the fox of this stench sulks -- In truth doth she breathe out poisonous fumes -- Then many a one sang -- In my youth unstaind -- And a wisdom as such -- Of memory -- Hers -- I too trembling -- But we, to whom the world is -- The missionaries (Passages) -- The torn cloth -- Songs of an other -- Empedoklean reveries (Passages) -- Jamais (Passage) -- An interlude of winter light -- "Eidolon of the Aion" -- The presence of the dance/The resolution of the music -- Circulations of the song -- In the south -- Homecoming -- Supplication -- The quotidian -- Toward his malaise -- Among his words -- The face -- At Cambridge an address to young poets -- Le Sonnet ou Sonne la Sonnette -- Pour Sourffrir l'Envie Jusqu'a l Amour en Vie -- The recall of the star Miraflor -- The naming of the time Ever -- I pour forth my life from this bough -- The turbine -- What the sonnet means the sonnet means -- For the assignment of the spirit -- the Cherubim (I) -- The Cherubim (II) -- Styx -- The sentinels -- An eros/Amor/Love cycle -- Et (Passages) -- In wonder (Passages) -- Constructing the course of a river in the Pyrenees -- In waking -- From the fall of 1950 -- Two sets of ten -- The dignities (Passages) -- The first -- Stimmung -- Enthralld -- Quand le Grand Foyer descend dans les eaux -- In blood's domaine -- After passage -- With in -- Seams -- You, muses -- The five songs -- Whose.

ISBN

0811216535 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005035052

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library