Research Catalog

Title

(Re:) working the ground : essays on the late writings of Robert Duncan / edited by James Maynard.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Maynard, James, 1974-

Description

x, 252 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This collection focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan (1919-1988). Written by emerging and established scholars, the essays present diverse readings of Duncan's work, addressing such topics as the evolution of Ground Work, the relation of the later poetry to earlier phases of his writing, its historical and cultural relevance, the theoretical concerns informing Duncan's poetics, and the significance of his later prose. Overall, this volume--which includes uncollected and unpublished writings by Duncan himself--offers a comprehensive introduction to the complex ground of his late writings while demonstrating a wide range of possibilities for their critical reading"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics

Uniform Title

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.

Alternative Title

Reworking the ground

Subject

• Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Criticism and interpretation
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• POETRY > General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

(Re:)working the ground: an introduction / James Maynard -- Previously uncollected and unpublished writings by Robert Duncan: A prospectus for the prepublication issue of Ground work (excerpt) ; Before the war: preface ; In passage -- Into the serial forms of The regulators / Robert J. Bertholf -- Duncan Étude III: intellectual property or the poetic commons / Stephen Collis -- Before Caesar's gate, Robert Duncan comes to grief: the Vietnam War and the unengendered child / Stephen Fredman -- Robert Duncan's craft exchanges: doing Ground work in the pastoral / Jeff Hamilton -- The needs of ghosts: on Poems from the margins of Thom Gunn's Moly / Devin Johnston -- Robert Duncan's radical humanism; or, On the crises of reading and falling in love / Eric Keenaghan -- Duncan's celestial hierarchy / Peter O'Leary -- Genreading and underwriting (in) Robert Duncan's Ground work / Clément Oudart -- Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing writing to Ground work II / Brian M. Reed -- The story told of what cannot be told / Dennis Tedlock -- [T]he poem / as a shatterd pitcher of rock crystal: An essay at war as groundwork for Robert Duncan's later poetry / Kimberlee Winter.

ISBN

• 9780230108103 (hardback)
• 0230108105 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2010048493

OCLC

682891243

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library