Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520234161)

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together quotations from Duncan's notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Ana s Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.

Author: Lisa Jarnot
ISBN-10: 0520234162
ISBN-13: 9780520234161
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2012
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.42w x 1.53d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist
Award: PROSE - Honorable Mention

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 17
Foreword 08/30/2012
Choice 02/01/2013