A Selected Prose

A Selected Prose represents the most wide-ranging collection to date of Robert Duncan's essays and talks and is a companion volume to the Selected Poems (1993). Editor Robert J. Bertholf has taken three core essays from Fictive Certainties (1985), an earlier prose collection that was limited to works written after 1955; to these have been added a variety of Duncan's writings on contemporary artists and such fellow poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer. Included as well are "Rites of Participation," an excerpt from the still unpublished "H.D. Book"; a long meditation on Edmond Jabes' The Book of Questions, and a revised version of Duncan's controversial and provocative essay of 1944, "The Homosexual in Society."

Introduction
Towards an Open Universe	p. 1
Pages from A Notebook	p. 13
Ideas of the Meaning of Form	p. 23
The Homosexual in Society	p. 38
[The Matter of the Bees]	p. 51
Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman	p. 61
The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound	p. 90
Notes on the Poetics of Marianne Moore	p. 94
Rites of Participation	p. 97
As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years	p. 138
As an Introduction: Charles Olson's Additional Prose	p. 145
After For Love: Robert Creeley	p. 152
Introductory Notes: Denise Levertov	p. 160
Preface: Jack Spicer's One Night Stand and Other Poems	p. 163
Iconographical Extensions: On Jess	p. 178
Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard's Museum	p. 194
Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art	p. 196
Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit	p. 197
Afterword: Beverly Dahlen's The Egyptian Poems	p. 204
The Delirium of Meaning: Edmond Jabes	p. 208
Index	p. 227
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