This second edition of the late Robert Duncan's SELECTED POEMS, first published in 1993, includes eleven additional poems and excerpts. National Poetry Award winner Robert Duncan (1919-1988) wrote post-modern and avant-garde poetry. He was originally connected with the Black Mountain School and later became associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.
Duncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetry's role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a useful and portable compilation, says critic Tom Clark, that provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of the Bay Area's greatest lyric poet. Editor Robert J. Bertholf has enlarged the original collection to include eleven additional poems and excerpts. The second edition of the Selected Poems fully fleshes out the retrospective of works chosen from the whole of Duncan's writing life. From his early poems through his final Ground Work volumes, as well as his serial poems, Structures of Rime and Passages, composed over the course of thirty years, there emerges a prophetic voice of great perception.