Selected Poems

DUNCAN, Robert. BERTHOLF, Robert J., edited by

ISBN 10: 0811212289 / ISBN 13: 9780811212281

Published by A New Directions Book, (New York), 1993

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First simultaneous paperback edition. 147pp. Light foxing on topedge, near fine. Publisher's typed promotional letter laid in.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems
• Publisher: A New Directions Book, (New York)
• Publication Date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0811212289
• ISBN 13: 9780811212281
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

A collection of poetry deals with such topics as love, death, revelation, religion, humanity, and war

From the Back Cover

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.