LEADER 04150nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910828181703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-68771-2 010 $a0-520-95362-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520953628 035 $a(CKB)2670000000269051 035 $a(EBL)1043709 035 $a(OCoLC)818817959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000780026 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11429740 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780026 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10785321 035 $a(PQKB)10351530 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1043709 035 $a(DE-B1597)520963 035 $a(OCoLC)1058140388 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520953628 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1043709 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL400021 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000269051 100 $a20120705d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe collected early poems and plays /$fRobert Duncan ; edited by Peter Quartermain 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (876 p.) 225 0 $aThe collected writings of Robert Duncan ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-32485-4 311 0 $a0-520-25926-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Disturbing Poetics --$tAcknowledgments --$tThe Years As Catches: Early Poems 1939-1945 --$tHeavenly City, Earthly City --$tUncollected Work 1933-1947 --$tMedieval Scenes --$tPoems 1948-1949 --$tUncollected Work 1948-1951 --$tFragments of a Disordered Devotion --$tCaesar's Gate: Poems 1949-1950 --$tA Book of Resemblances: Poems 1950-1953 --$tNames of People: Stein Imitations from 1952 --$tPlay Time Pseudo Stein: From the Laboratory Records Notebook 1953 --$tWriting Writing --$tUncollected Work 1952-1956 --$tThe Cat and the Blackbird --$tFaust Foutu: A Comic Masque --$tMedea at Kolchis: The Maiden Head --$tLetters: Poems mcmliii-mcmlvi --$tAppendix 1. Tables of Contents --$tAppendix 2. Jacket Blurb to The First Decade --$tAppendix 3. Preface (1972) to Caesar's Gate: Poems 1949-50 --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex of Titles and First Lines 330 $aA landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including Letters: Poems 1953-1956. Deftly edited, it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan's distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet's development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period. This volume includes the celebrated works Medieval Scenes and The Venice Poem, all of Duncan's long unavailable major ventures into drama, his extensive "imitations" of Gertrude Stein, and the remarkable poems written in Majorca as responses to a series of collaged paste-ups by Duncan's life-long partner, the painter Jess. Books appear in chronological order of publication, with uncollected periodical and other publications arranged chronologically, following each book. The introduction includes a biographical commentary on Duncan's early life and works, and clears an initial path through the textual complexities of his early writing. Notes offer brief commentaries on each book and on many of the poems. The volume to follow, The Collected Later Poetry and Plays, will include The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), Bending the Bow (1968), Ground Work (1984), and Ground Work II (1987). 606 $aAmerican literature 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aDuncan$b Robert$f1919-1988.$0124018 701 $aQuartermain$b Peter$01697416 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828181703321 996 $aThe collected early poems and plays$94078099 997 $aUNINA