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Jarnot Lisa <1967-> |
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Titolo |
Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Lisa Jarnot |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-69993-0 |
9786613676917 |
0-520-95194-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (564 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Gay men - United States |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
Poets, American - 20th century |
Art and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
San Francisco (Calif.) Intellectual life 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Textual Notes -- One. Childhood's Retreat -- Two. Toward the Shaman -- Three. The Enamord Mage -- Four. The Opening of the Field -- Five. The Nasty Aesthetician -- Six. Domestic Scenes -- Seven. Troubadour -- Eight. The Master of Rime -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Credits -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together "ations from Duncan's notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael |
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McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson. |
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