(Re:)Working the Ground

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

(Re:)Working the Ground: An Introduction; J.Maynard PART I: PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS BY ROBERT DUNCAN From : A Prospectus for the Prepublication Issue of Ground Work Before the War: Preface In Passage PART II: ESSAYS Into the Serial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