Bending the Bow: Poetry

Bending the Bow: Poetry
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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 manâ€™s 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 inÂ The Opening of the FieldÂ and continued in this volume, Duncan works with ideas, forces, and persons created in language itselfâ€“â€“the life and identity of the poet in the poem. With the first thirty poems of "Passages," which form the structural base inÂ Bending the Bow, he has begun a second open seriesâ€“â€“a 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 Poundâ€™sÂ Cantos, Williamsâ€™s Paterson, Zukofskyâ€™s â€œA,â€ and Olsonâ€™s Maximus Poems have led the way. The chronological composition ofÂ Bending the BowÂ emphasizes Duncanâ€™s 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 forms moving within and interpenetrating forms. Versions of Verlaineâ€™s Saint Graal and Parsifal and a translation of GÃ©rard de Nervalâ€™s Les ChimeresÂ enter the picture; narrative bridges for the play Adamâ€™s Way have their place in the process; and three major individual poemsâ€“â€“"My Mother Would Be a Falconress," "A Shrine to Ameinias," and "Epilogos"â€“â€“among others make for an interplay of frames of reference and meaning in which even such resounding blasts of outrage at the War in Vietnam as "Up Rising" and "The Soldiers" are not for the poet things in themselves but happenings in a poetry that involve all other parts of his experience.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1968-01-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811200332

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1968-01-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811200332

Bending the Bow: Poetry

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