Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance -- the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic "guru" figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.
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Robert Duncan was the heart of the San Francisco Renaissance -- the literary and countercultural movement that prefigured Black Mountain, the Beats, and the hippies. Duncan functioned as shaman of an emerging aesthetic grounded in magic, polytheism, and sexual freedom, a role that he cultivated in weekly Berkeley literary salons. For his biographer, Ekbert Faas, the mystic-poet Duncan was a harbinger of the coming cultural revolution, the iconic "guru" figure who, in the late 1940s, pried opened the door to the late 1960s.
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Seller's Description:
Fine. Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society. 8vo. In paper illustrated wrappers. With maroon end papers. 361 pages, with Annotations, Appendix, and Index. With 37 b/w photographic images and illustrations. No names or marks.
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Seller's Description:
Very good. 361 pgs. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. near fine, very slight edge wear with maroon end papers. 361 pages, with Annotations, Appendix, and Index. With 37 b/w photographic images and illustrations.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. One of 500 copies. Illustrated boards with black backstrip. Original glassine Dust Jacket. Red endpapers. 'Compliments of the Publisher' card laid-in. Illustrated with photographs. Poetry. Literary criticism. Robert Duncan. Artist. 361 pp. including Index. Black Sparrow Press. Tight, bright and desirable limited edition near fine copy.
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Photos, 9.25 x 6.25, cloth backed boards, 361 w/ index, one corner lightly bumped else vg in acetate dw FIRST TRADE ED. NY Times obit of Duncan present.
