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The Opening of the Field
— published 1960 — 3 editions |
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Selected Poems
by Robert Duncan, Robert J. Bertholf — published 1959 — 4 editions |
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Bending the Bow
— published 1968 — 4 editions |
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Roots and Branches
— published 1969 — 2 editions |
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Ground Work: Before the War/In the Dark
by Robert Duncan, James Maynard , Robert J. Bertholf — published 2006 |
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The H.D. Book
— published 1984 — 5 editions |
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Fictive Certainties
— published 1985 — 2 editions |
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Letters: Poems 1953-56
— published 2003 |
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Ground Work II: In the Dark
— published 1988 — 2 editions |
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Caesar's Gate
— published 1972 |
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“PRELIMINARY EXERCISE:
What does a turbine veil? a bird avail what chord?
I heard a bird whir no word, felt
a turbine shadow turning from the floods of time
electric currents the darkness stirrd,
and trees in blaze of light arose
casting shadows of speech, seductive, musical, abroad.
It was a single tree. It was a word of many trees
that filld the vale.
It was a store of the unspoken in the bird
that whirrd the air, that every occasion of the word
overawed.”
― Robert Duncan
What does a turbine veil? a bird avail what chord?
I heard a bird whir no word, felt
a turbine shadow turning from the floods of time
electric currents the darkness stirrd,
and trees in blaze of light arose
casting shadows of speech, seductive, musical, abroad.
It was a single tree. It was a word of many trees
that filld the vale.
It was a store of the unspoken in the bird
that whirrd the air, that every occasion of the word
overawed.”
― Robert Duncan
“You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.”
― Robert Duncan
― Robert Duncan
