Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Date
2012.
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N811.54/238
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxviii, 526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT -- 1.The Antediluvian World -- 2.Native Son of the Golden West -- 3.The Architecture -- 4.A Part in the Fabulous -- 5.The Wasteland -- 6.The Fathering Dream -- pt. TWO TOWARD THE SHAMAN -- 7.The Little Freshman Yes -- 8.A Company of Women...
Contents note continued: 36.The Playhouse -- 37.The Political Machine -- 38.Knight Errant -- 39.The Vancouver Conference -- 40.Bending the Bow -- 41.A Night Song -- 42.Anger -- 43.The Berkeley Conference -- 44.The Sixties -- pt. SIX DOMESTIC SCENES -- 45.The Household -- 46.The Summer of Love -- 47....
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
2012.
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Summary
"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 f...
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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography / Lisa Jarnot.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N811.54/238
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74VvyJaZRAod
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyJaZRAod
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ISBN
9780520234161 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
811.54
MMS ID
991016069389702626
