Selected Poems

"Duncan was one of the true masters of contemporary American poetry. His oeuvre is by turns lyrical, experimental, archaic, visionary and political. His most innovative works ("Structure of Rime", and "Passages") have been epic in nature and interspersed among shorter poems throughout several volumes, so that it has been virtually impossible to get a sense of his full poetic powers without reading his mature books, from 1960 on, in order. Bertholf's selections are so attuned to the essentials of Duncan's ("Ground Work: Before the War", "Roots and Branches") writing --the idiosyncratic spellings, the attention and respect given the muses, the horrific sense of war-- that even those familiar with the whole body of Duncan's work will become more sensitized to his recurring imagery and consistency of thought pattern through this collection."Duncan, Robert is the author of 'Selected Poems' with ISBN 9780811212274 and ISBN 0811212270.