03295nam 2200697Ia 450 991046186040332120220114022102.01-280-69993-097866136769170-520-95194-810.1525/9780520951945(CKB)2670000000208228(EBL)943599(OCoLC)795894859(SSID)ssj0000679001(PQKBManifestationID)11387215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000679001(PQKBWorkID)10603025(PQKB)11462722(MiAaPQ)EBC943599(DE-B1597)520120(OCoLC)802047176(DE-B1597)9780520951945(Au-PeEL)EBL943599(CaPaEBR)ebr10571223(CaONFJC)MIL367691(EXLCZ)99267000000020822820120423d2012 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrRobert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus[electronic resource] a biography /Lisa JarnotBerkeley University of California Press20121 online resource (564 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23416-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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 McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.Gay menUnited StatesBiographyModernism (Literature)United StatesPoets, American20th centuryBiographyArt and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centurySan Francisco (Calif.)Intellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Gay menModernism (Literature)Poets, AmericanArt and literatureHistory811/.54BJarnot Lisa1967-1026130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461860403321Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus2440863UNINA