Robert Duncan's poetry established the San Francisco Bay area as a major center for poetry in the United States. There were other poets--Kenneth Rexroth, James Broughton, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser--but it was Duncan's authority as a poet that struck...

Robert Duncan is one of the poets who helped to establish the San Francisco Bay area as one of the major centers for poetry in the United States, and in recent years he has become the presiding voice of that center. Together with Charles Olson and Robert...

Although Robert Duncan figured prominently in the literary ferment of the mid-1950s in San Francisco, his literary career by no means begins or ends there. His relationship to the Bay Area writing scene originates in the late 1930s when, as coeditor of t...

Configuring Grief The issue is not just that we grieve, nor when we grieve. The issue is not just why we grieve in poetry, nor how the beautiful song of poetry capitulates to or conspires with the task of weeping. These and more....

An elegy for Yugoslavia CHERNOBYL STRAWBERRIES: A MEMOIR by Vesna Goldsworthy Atlantic Books, £14.99, pp. 290, ISBN 1843544148 £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 The title of this charming book refers to the last summer the author spent in her native city...