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ISBN 10: 1609381343

ISBN 13: 9781609381349

Author: Stephen Collis, Graham Lyons

In Reading Duncan Reading, 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.”   Part one emphasizes Duncan’s acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations—including Sarah Ehlers’s demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan’s early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry’s unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart’s exploration of Duncan’s use of “foreign words” to fashion “a language to which no one is native.”    In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan—and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan’s derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey’s use of Duncan’s “would-be shaman,” Catherine Martin sees Duncan’s influence in Susan Howe’s “development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and ‘permission’ hold comparable sway,” and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson’s “reading to steal.” These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan’s own inexhaustible work.  

Table of contents:

Part One: Duncan Reading

One: Robert Duncan’s Miltonic Persuasion: The Emergence of a Radical Poetic – Sarah E. Ehlers

Two: Robert Duncan’s Derivative Poetics: Community, the Metaphysicals, and the Nature of War – Geo

Three: Textual Poetics and the Politics of Reading in Duncan’s “Night Scenes” – Siobhán Scarr

Four: The Airs of Duncan and Zukofsky – Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas

Five: Is the Queendom Enough (without the Queen)? Poetic Abdication in Robert Duncan and Laura Ridin

Six: Reading A/Drift:Robert Duncan’s Use of Foreign Words – Clément Oudart

Part Two: Reading Duncan

Seven: Derivation or Stealth? Quotation in the Poetry of Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson – Ross Hai

Eight: Symposium of the Whole: Jerome Rothenberg and the Dream of “A Poetry of All Poetries” – S

Nine: How the Dead Prey upon Us: Robert Duncan and Susan Howe – Catherine Martin

Ten: Divining the Derivers: Anarchism and the Practice of Derivative Poetics in Robert Duncan and Jo

Eleven: The Poets’ War: Inflation, Complicity, and the Daimonic – J. P. Craig

Twelve: Talking Cosmos: Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson – Peter O’Leary

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