Research Catalog

Title

Roots and branches : poems / by Robert Duncan.

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1969, ©1964.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Ford, David
• Bullock, Wynn
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xi, 176 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• New Directions paperbook ; 275
• NDP275

Subjects

• Poems > 20th century
• Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Poems – 20th century.

Note

• "A New Directions paperbook" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' paperback binding, designed by David Ford; cover photograph by Wynn Bullock.

Contents

• Roots and branches (1959-60) -- Roots and branches -- What do I know of the old lore? -- Night scenes -- A sequence of poems for H.D.'s 73rd birthday -- A letter -- Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita -- A dancing concerning a form of women -- The law -- Apprehensions -- Sonneries of the Rose Cross -- Now the record the record -- Variations on two dicta of William Blake -- Cover images -- Come, let me free myself -- Risk -- Four songs the night nurse sang -- Structure of Rime XV: "O mask of the mandrill!" -- Structure of Rime XVI: "Back to the figure" -- Structure of Rime XVII: "This potion is love's portion" -- Structure of Rime XVIII: "Kundry was Wagner's creation ..." -- Osiris and Set.
• Windings (1961-63) -- Two presentations -- After a passage in Baudelaire -- Shelley's Arethusa set to new measures -- After reading H.D.'s Hermetic definitions -- Strains of sight -- Doves -- Returning to the rhetoric of an early mode -- Two entertainments. The ballad of the Forfar witches' sing ; A country wife's song -- What happened: prelude -- A set of romantic hymns -- Thank you for love -- From The Mabinogion -- Forced lines -- A new poem (for Jack Spicer) -- Sonnet 1: "Now there is a love of which Dante ..." -- Sonnet 2: "For it is as if the thread of my life" -- Sonnet 3: From Dante's Sixth sonnet -- Answering -- Adam's way, a play upon theosophical themes -- Cyparissus -- A part-sequence for change -- Structure of Rime XIX: "The artists of the survival ..." -- Structure of Rime XX: "The master of Rime told me ..." -- Structure of Rime XXI: "Lost in the hour-maze ..." -- The continent.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-778

ISBN

• 0811200345
• 9780811200349

LCCN

64024233

OCLC

2677423

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Title

Roots and branches : poems / by Robert Duncan.

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1969, ©1964.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; 275

NDP275

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 72

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-778 bound in publishers' paperback binding, designed by David Ford; cover photograph by Wynn Bullock. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-778 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Ford, David, book designer.

Bullock, Wynn, photographer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-778