Fictive Certainties by Robert Edward Duncan

by Robert Duncan

Fictive Certainties moves toward a definition of the poet's ground in contemporary consciousness.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

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.

Reviews

[Seth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Duncan is worthless.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

good ol bobby dunks

[Daniel Klawitter · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The work-a-day world, if we but hear, speaks in tongues, and the waking consciousness casts a spell of its own awakeness, at once revealing the true nature of things and concealing it."

[Leia Penina · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I don't agree with everything Duncan says, I do think this is an important study of the mythopoeic, and a super indepth investigation of Duncan's own poetics.