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Bending the Bow: Poetry by Robert Edward Duncan is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bending the Bow: Poetry about?
In Bending the Bow , Robert Duncan is writing on a scale which places him among the poets, after Walt Whitman, bold enough to attempt the personal epic, the large-canvas rendering of mans spirit in history as one man sees it, feels it, lives it, and makes it his own. In "Structures of Rime," the open series begun in The Opening of the Field and continued in this volume, Duncan works with ideas, forces, and persons created in language itselfthe life and identity of the poet in the poem. With the first thirty poems of "Passages," which form the structural base in Bending the Bow , he has begun a second open seriesa multiphasic projection of movements in a field, an imagined universe of the poem that moves out to include all the terms of experience as meaning. Here Duncan draws upon and in turn contributes to a mode in American poetry where Pounds Cantos , Williamss Paterson , Zukofskys A, and Olsons Maximus Poems have led the way. The chronological composition of Bending the Bow emphasizes Duncans belief that the significance of form is that of an event in process. Thus, the poems of the two open series belong ultimately to the configuration of a life in poetry in which there are for
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- Author
- Robert Edward Duncan
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 1968
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811200332
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.47 / 5 (139 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14