Volume 4, Number 9 · June 3, 1965
A Philosophical Poet
By Robert Mazzocco
Roots and Branches
by Robert Duncan
Scribners, 176 pp., $1.95 (paper)
January
by David Shapiro
Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 48 pp., $4.00
Robert Duncan has been publishing, with little renown, for more than fifteen years. Nominally attached to the Black Mountain school, he is indebted primarily to the technique of Williams and superficially to the esthetics of Olson. Covered with the measles of multiple allusions, haphazardly read in everything from the classics to the Surrealists or the theosophists, Duncan's intellectual growth resembles a convolvulus spreading its tendrils across a floating world, catching a bit of information here, an insight there.
Review, 2670 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |