A new biography shows how the poet Robert Duncan fed a line backward into the labyrinthine history of human imagination. Ever since The Iliad and The Odyssey were ascribed to Homer, the blind poet has ...
Robert Duncan saw in H.D.’s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.” Robert Duncan did not know anything about the Modernist poet H.D. in the mid-1930s, when as a ...