Selected Poems

Selected Poems by Duncan, Robert. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780811213455.

This second edition of the late Robert Duncans Selected Poems, first published in 1993, includes eleven additional poems and excerpts. Duncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetrys role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a "useful and portable compilation," says critic Tom Clark, that "provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of the Bay Areas greatest lyric poet." Editor Robert J. Bertholf has enlarged the original collection to include eleven additional poems and excerpts. The second edition of the Selected Poems fully fleshes out the retrospective of works chosen from the whole of Duncans writing life. From his early poems through his final Ground Work volumes, as well as his serial poems, "Structures of Rime" and "Passages," composed over the course of thirty years, there emerges a prophetic voice of great perception.