The gift of the poem: Mallarme and Robert Duncan's Ground Work: before the war.(Stephane Mallarme, French symbolist)(Critical essay)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2008| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

Robert Duncan's poetry is conventionally read in the context of the Black Mountain school of poetry or the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s. However, his work is also deeply involved with that of the French symbolist Stephane Mallarme. While Mallarme informs much of Duncan's writing, notably the metaphors of interruption and dictation central to his poetics, a cluster of Duncan's poems from the mid-70s gives us an important insight into the procedures of his final Ground Work volumes, illuminating his changing notion of the poem as 'gift'.

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