Caesar's Gate

by Robert Duncan, Jess (Illustrator)

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 1955

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

[Blueberry · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love this book especially for the preface and the past-up (collages) by jess. in the preface, duncan is fierce, contending with the critic Rosenthal (who called duncan's verse 'girlish'), contending with Garcia Lorca, contending with Anais Nin. . . anyway, he eventually comes to this conclusion in his preface: a poem called "something is moving":::
I let it move through me.
I let it move by means of me.
I let it move by my means.
I let it move toward what it means.
It means to me through me.
I let the movement of it through me.
As it is meant for me, I mean.
I let it until it is through with me.

[_ · Rating 5 out of 5]

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