This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics. The author's overriding concern is Duncan's understanding of excess in relation to poetry and the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and John Dewey.

About the Author
James Maynard is the curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. His edition of Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose received the Poetry Foundation's 2014 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He is currently editing a volume of Duncan's uncollected prose.

Reviews
Maynard illuminates how Duncan's encounters with Pragmatist process philosophy helped catalyze one of the richest, most groundbreaking bodies of poetic art created since 1940."" - Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley

""This book is a treasure trove of archival gems that Maynard has unearthed in his many years of residence among the poet's papers."" - Stephen Fredman, editor of A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry



Book Information
ISBN 9780826358899
Author James Maynard
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint University of New Mexico Press
Publisher University of New Mexico Press
Weight(grams) 508g