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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"This welcome collection of essays addressing Robert Duncan s late writings offers an informative, thought-provoking range of insight and approach. The essays are blessed with deep archival, philological, and contextualizing reach, resonantly engaging the heft and the restive harmonics of Duncan s work." - Nathaniel Mackey, Reynolds Price Professor of English, Duke University
"This brilliant and much-needed collection of essays, along with three important works by Duncan himself, addresses the dynamics and materials of Duncan s making, the complex forces at work in his writing-as-reading and reading-as-writing, the range of his inclusive explorations and across-the-board readings, his investigations of other languages - and worlds besides.These essays exhilarate the connectedness of the late, great poems of Ground Work to the earlier, all the way from The Years as Catches to Bending the Bow." - Peter Quartermain, Professor of English Emeritus, University of British Columbia and author of Disjunctive Poetics from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe
"Offers a definitive treatment of a poet for whom reading was a mode of being and writing an entry into cosmic orders. Far from providing a critical consensus on Duncan s notoriously eclectic work, these essays show the generative and rhizomatic trajectories his thought could pursue. Building on extensive archival research, essays in this volume trace Duncan s response to events of his own later years - Vietnam, feminism, gay liberation, as well as his own household, friendships, and mortality. With the long-awaited arrival of a multi-volume edition of Duncan s collected writings (Re:)Working the Ground re-opens the field of inquiry for this vital American poet." - Michael Davidson, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, UC San Diego
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Re:)Working the Ground
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan
Editors: James Maynard
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119932
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: James Maynard 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10810-3Published: 21 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29099-4Published: 21 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11993-2Published: 26 September 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 252
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History