{"product_id":"robert-duncan-in-san-francisco-michael-rumaker-9780872865907","title":"Robert Duncan in San Francisco","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-\u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. Contrasting Duncan's daringly frank homosexuality with Rumaker's own then-closeted life, \u003cem\u003eRobert Duncan in San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e conjures up with harrowing detail an era of police prosecution of a clandestine gay community struggling to survive in the otherwise \"open city\" of San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition includes a selection of previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan, and an interview conducted for this edition, in which Rumaker provides further reflections on the poet and the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderfully revealing account of a series of lifechanging collisions between a young writer (Rumaker), an older writer (Duncan), a still older mentor for both (Charles Olson), a city (San Francisco), and an important era in American literature (the 1950s), when it was being turned upside down by these individuals and their friends. It's also a tender and intelligent account of a young man's coming to grips with being gay in the midst of this upheaval. Much more than memoir; it's history.\"--Russell Banks, author of \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobert Duncan in San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e offers a surprising portrait of a mentor in all his witty, wicked, luminous, and vulnerable complexity. Straddling the lines of memoir and cultural history, Michael Rumaker gives a rare and delightful view of Duncan at home in the gay community while also documenting the struggles of that community in 1950s America.\"--Lisa Jarnot, author of \u003cem\u003eRobert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this fine memoir of this 16 months in San Francisco, Rumaker learns many lessons about being at home with who he is, in what he calls 'Robert's city.'\"--Joanne Kyger, \u003cem\u003eAbout Now: Collected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Rumaker has written several novels and short story collections, as well as the memoir \u003cem\u003eBlack Mountain Days\u003c\/em\u003e. He was born in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Black Mountain College--where Duncan served as his outside thesis advisor--and Columbia University. He taught at City University of New York and the New School for Social Research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Duncan (1919-1988) was an American poet and well-known as a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. City Lights published a book of his poetry titled \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Rumaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872865908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872865907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.50d","brand":"Michael Rumaker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372327260415,"sku":"9780872865907","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_264691d8-f068-429e-b58e-59618197eed4.jpg?v=1732725638","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-duncan-in-san-francisco-michael-rumaker-9780872865907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}