Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Paperback. An unread copy with clean and tight binding. Little to no shelf wear.
Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance ― the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic “guru” figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.. As New. Item #55
ISBN: 0876854889
Price: $35.00