This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing.

Autorentext
JAMES MAYNARD is Assistant Curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Inhalt
(Re:)Working the Ground: An Introduction; J.Maynard PART I: PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS BY ROBERT DUNCAN From : A Prospectus for the Prepublication Issue of Ground Work Before the War: Preface In Passage PART II: ESSAYS Into the Serial Forms of "The Regulators; R.J.Bertholf Duncan Étude III: Intellectual Property or the Poetic Commons; S.Collis Before Caesar's Gate, Robert Duncan Comes to Grief: The Vietnam War and the "Unengendered Child"; S.Fredman Robert Duncan's Craft Exchanges: Doing Ground Work in the Pastoral; J.Hamilton The Needs of Ghosts: On Poems from the Margins of Thom Gunn's "Moly"; D.Johnston Robert Duncan's Radical Humanism; or, On the Crises of Reading and Falling in Love; E.Keenaghan Duncan's Celestial Hierarchy; P.O'Leary Genreading and Underwriting (in) Robert Duncan's Ground Work ; C.Oudart Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing Writing to Ground Work II ; B.M.Reed The Story Told of What Cannot Be Told; D.Tedlock "[T]he Poem / as a Shatterd Pitcher of Rock Crystal": "An Essay at War" as Groundwork for Robert Duncan's Later Poetry; K.Winter