Table of Contents
In the beginning, or recatching the years as catches with Robert Duncan, in the years 1942 and 1945-46 / Hamilton and Mary Tyler -- A conversation with Joanna and Michael McClure / Robert J. Bertholf -- Exercises in disorder : Duncan's imitations of Gertrude Stein / Jayne L. Walker -- A few notes on Robert Duncan / Helen Adam -- The question of wisdom as such / Don Byrd -- A book of first things : the opening of the field / Michael Davidson -- Some Duncan letters--a memoir and a critical tribute / Denise Levertov -- Heroic survival through ecstatic form : Robert Duncan's roots and branches / Eric Mottram -- Homosexuality in Robert Duncan's poetry / Thom Gunn -- The plural text : 'passages' / Ian W. Reid -- Uroboros : Dante and a seventeenth century suite / Nathaniel Mackey -- Robert Duncan and the power to cohere / Gerrit Lansing -- A note about Robert Duncan and music / Lou Harrison -- 'Untitled', 'Etching of Robert Duncan' / R.B. Kitaj -- Duncan's Celtic mode / Sean Golden -- An inheritance of spirit : Robert Duncan and Walt Whitman / Mark Johnson and Robert DeMott -- Robert Duncan : a selected checklist.