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Reading Duncan reading : Robert Duncan and the poetics of derivation /

In this book, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was anoth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Collis, Stephen, 1965-, Lyons, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2012]
Colección:Contemporary North American poetry series
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this book, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors." The essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan's own inexhaustible work.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxii, 271 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781609381349
1609381343