What I Saw
Robert Duncan, “What I Saw” from Bending the Bow. Copyright © by Robert Duncan. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: Bending the Bow (1968)
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Poet Robert Duncan 1919–1988
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Black Mountain
Subjects Time & Brevity, Religion, Pets, Living, Relationships
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Described by Kenneth Rexroth as “one of the most accomplished, one of the most influential” of the postwar American poets, Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led by Charles Olson, and the San Francisco Renaissance, whose other members included poets Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser. A distinctive voice in American poetry, Duncan’s idiosyncratic poetics drew on myth, occultism, . . .
Poems by Robert Duncan
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SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Religion, Pets, Living, Relationships
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD Black Mountain
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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