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<\/a><\/p>\nThanks are due to Peter Quartermain for an\u00a0superb job as editor of the volume & for his brilliant introduction. Below, the description the University of\u00a0California\u00a0press gives, and which you can find online here<\/a>:<\/p>\n A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan\u2019s books and magazine publications up to and including\u00a0Letters: Poems 1953\u20131956<\/em>. Deftly edited, it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan\u2019s distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet\u2019s development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period.<\/p>\n This volume includes the celebrated works\u00a0Medieval Scenes\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Venice Poem<\/em>, all of Duncan\u2019s long unavailable major ventures into drama, his extensive \u201cimitations\u201d of Gertrude Stein, and the remarkable poems written in Majorca as responses to a series of collaged paste-ups by Duncan\u2019s life-long partner, the painter Jess. Books appear in chronological order of publication, with uncollected periodical and other publications arranged chronologically, following each book. The introduction includes a biographical commentary on Duncan\u2019s early life and works, and clears an initial path through the textual complexities of his early writing. Notes offer brief commentaries on each book and on many of the poems.<\/p>\n The volume to follow,\u00a0The Collected Later Poetry and Plays<\/em>, will include\u00a0The Opening of the Field<\/em>\u00a0(1960),\u00a0Roots and Branches<\/em>\u00a0(1964),\u00a0Bending the Bow\u00a0<\/em>(1968),\u00a0Ground Work\u00a0<\/em>(1984), and\u00a0Ground Work II\u00a0<\/em>(1987).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The details are:<\/p>\n\n
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Robert DuncanThe Collected Early Poems and Plays<\/h2>\n
Robert\u00a0Duncan\u00a0(Author), Peter\u00a0Quartermain\u00a0(Editor)<\/h4>\n