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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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| Robert Duncan |
Born in 1919 in Oakland, California, Robert Duncan began writing poetry as
a teenager in Bakersfield. Despite his affiliation with several major movements in American poetry of the fifties and sixties, Duncan forged a style uniquely his own...
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| Robert Duncan CD
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1969. Introduced by John Ashbery. Duncan is at the height of his powers at the time of this reading, which contains poems from The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, and Bending the Bow. "He is the alchemist of modern poets," Ashbery tells us in his introduction, "and his work is an endless series of experiments, each changing the nature of the last." "Three Pages from a Birthday Book" is here read in public for the first time. And Duncan's dramatic delivery of "The Letter" and "My Mother Would Be a Falconress" are unforgettable. Length: 54 min. |
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