wire pulling sailors: a cornucopian tale

by Robert Duncan

WIRE PULLING BOOK TWO.

Jude is even less convinced. First they dig his earth, then they drink his wine. Any minute now someone will get very, very excited, as if life were not a ponderously elaborate joke which Swedes have cooked up to play upon Norwegians. Because, not content with banning his Horatio, or curbing his inclination to go over a stile, now they have sent him into exile, in Vienna of all the most baroque, not to say gluttonous, of punishments.

Observe Jude and his very conditional companions, a.k.a. spongers, a.k.a. succubi—a Napoleonic army of actors, anglers, artists, anarchists, conspirators, strippers and wastrels—as they roam old Vienna, where large timepieces appear inexplicably, artificial fruit is the Tagesgericht, and Orson Welles is hogging all the lime.

Wire Pulling Sailors is an Odyssey—a Judessy—where origin is anything but urgent.

642 pages, Paperback

Published February 15, 2018

About the author

Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poet associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. Duncan saw his work as emerging especially from the tradition of Pound, Williams and Lawrence. Duncan was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.