(Re:)Working the Ground

Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan

J. Maynard

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780230108103
• eBook ISBN: 9780230119932
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Poetry
• Index: Literature

This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments and Permissions
• Abbreviations
• (Re:)Working the Ground: An Introduction
• Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Writings by Robert Duncan
• 1 Into the Serial Forms of “The Regulators”
• 2 Duncan Étude III: Intellectual Property or the Poetic Commons
• 3 Before Caesar’s Gate, Robert Duncan Comes to Grief: The Vietnam War and the “Unengendered Child”
• 4 Robert Duncan’s Craft Exchanges: Doing Ground Work in the Pastoral
• 5 The Needs of Ghosts: On Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn’s “Moly”
• 6 Robert Duncan’s Radical Humanism; or, On the Crises of Reading and Falling in Love
• 7 Duncan’s Celestial Hierarchy
• 8 Genreading and Underwriting (in) Robert Duncan’s Ground Work
• 9 Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing Writing to Ground Work II
• 10 The Story Told of What Cannot Be Told
• 11 “[T]he poem / as a shatterd pitcher of rock crystal”: “An Essay at War” as Groundwork for Robert Duncan’s Later Poetry
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index