The Opening of the Field: Poetry

by Robert Duncan

Book Overview

Speaking of his own work, Robert Duncan (1919-1987) said: "I make poetry as other men make war or make love or make states or revolutions: to exercise my faculties at large." The Opening of the Field, his first major collection, was originally brought out in 1960; in it, Duncan introduced his "Structures of Rime," the open series he continued in his subsequent collections, Roots and Branches (1964) and Bending the Bow (1968), Ground Work: Before the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811204804
• ISBN13: 9780811204804
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"