Duncan, Robert (Edward) (b. Edward Howard Duncan)

(1919–88) poet, writer; born in Oakland, Calif. Adopted when young, and given the name Robert Edward Symmes, he assumed his new name in 1941. He studied at the University of California: Berkeley (1936–38; 1948–50), taught at Black Mountain College (1956–57), and became associated with the San Francisco Bay area group of poets, as seen in The Opening of the Field (1960). He was also an editor, playwright, and artist.

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Duncan, Robert. Ground Work: Before the War/In the Dark.

MARGINALIA: On Robert Duncan's "Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's Moly"

The men's team - Scott Duncan, Robert Leck, Kieran Macarty, Scott Macaulay, Sam McNeil and Jonny O'Mara - held their nerve to secure the National League title for the first time since 2014, defeating Durham University (8-4) and Loughborough University (12-0) which saw them pip their Durham counterparts by one point in the overall standings.

University tennis aces are a class act; Tennis Men's team put on a great show to lift BUCS title

For the current benefit, her cast includes Donna Murphy, Christine Ebersole, Carolee Carmello, Donna McKechnie, Kathie Lee Gifford, Sandy Duncan, Robert Klein and Tommy Tune.

'Pamela' serves a legacy

Editor's note: Thanks to Selvin Brenden, Randy Duncan, Robert McMath, John Drivdahl, James Johnson, David Krug, S.

Threshing Machine Co

And the 13.5-3 victory took the visitors to the Colne Valley to the top of the table, displacing Budenbergs, who are travelling to Longwood next Wednesday and who include top names like Brian Duncan, Robert Hitchen and Graeme Wilson in their line-up.

Tonge on top as Longwood fall

In the seventies, when the Language poets began publishing, their teachers had been New Americans such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Philip Whalen, and Jack Spicer.

Marjorie Perloff. 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics

Brakhage possesses Stein's metaphysical wit and Pound's intellectual appetite; he shares Olson's commitment to "proprioception' and is preoccupied with what Duncan called "the truth of life in myth." As his first two books, Metaphors on Vision and Brakhage Scrapbook, (1) demonstrate, a good deal of this writing has occurred in the course of his extensive correspondences with poets: both books include letters from Brakhage to Robert Creeley, Guy Davenport, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Robert Kelly, Michael McClure, Charles Olson, and others.

Over the past fifty years Stan Brakhage has forcefully expanded the boundaries of film. (Introduction)

Duncan, Robert Edwardoriginal name Edward Howard Duncan, adopted name Robert Edward Symmes (b.

Duncan, Robert Edward

McLaughlin, Noxon; camera, Cort Fey; editors, Sue Blainey, Michael Ross; music, Robert Duncan, Robert Cairns; production designers, Donna Haitin, Stephen Storer; casting, Barbara Fiorentino, Rebecca Mangieri.

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