{"product_id":"bending-the-bow-poetry-paperback","title":"Bending the Bow: Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Duncan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Structures of Rime, the open series begun in \u003cem\u003eThe Opening of the Field\u003c\/em\u003e and continued in this volume, Duncan works with ideas, forces, and persons created in language itself--the life and identity of the poet in the poem. With the first thirty poems of Passages, which form the structural base in \u003cem\u003eBending the Bow\u003c\/em\u003e, he has begun a second open series--a multiphasic projection of movements in a field, an imagined universe of the poem that moves out to include all the terms of experience as meaning. Here Duncan draws upon and in turn contributes to a mode in American poetry where Pound's \u003cem\u003eCantos\u003c\/em\u003e, Williams's \u003cem\u003ePaterson\u003c\/em\u003e, Zukofsky's \"A,\" and Olson's \u003cem\u003eMaximus Poems\u003c\/em\u003e have led the way. The chronological composition of \u003cem\u003eBending the Bow\u003c\/em\u003e emphasizes Duncan's belief that the significance of form is that of an event in process. Thus, the poems of the two open series belong ultimately to the configuration of a life in poetry in which there are forms moving within and interpenetrating forms. Versions of Verlaine's \u003cem\u003eSaint Graal\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eParsifal\u003c\/em\u003e and a translation of Gérard de Nerval's \u003cem\u003eLes Chimeres\u003c\/em\u003e enter the picture; narrative bridges for the play \u003cem\u003eAdam's Way\u003c\/em\u003e have their place in the process; and three major individual poems--My Mother Would Be a Falconress, A Shrine to Ameinias, and Epilogos--among others make for an interplay of frames of reference and meaning in which even such resounding blasts of outrage at the War in Vietnam as Up Rising and The Soldiers are not for the poet things in themselves but happenings in a poetry that involve all other parts of his experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 7.92 x 5.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694074368063,"sku":"9780811200332","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d105e4575afedf985cdf1e01a8a1ad20.webp?v=1765000950","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bending-the-bow-poetry-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}