Robert Duncan AKA Edward Howard Duncan Born: 7-Jan-1919 Birthplace: Oakland, CA Died: 3-Feb-1988 Location of death: San Francisco, CA Cause of death: Kidney failure
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Bending the Bow Military service: US Army (psychological discharge for homosexuality 1941) Father: Edward Howard Duncan (day laborer) Mother: Marguerite Pearl Carpenter (d. childbirth) Father: Edwin Joseph Symmes (architect, adopted him in 1919, d. 1935) Mother: Minnehaha Harris (adoptive) Wife: (briefly married 1940s) Boyfriend: Jess Collins (collage artist, cohabited 1951-88)
University: University of California at Berkeley (1936-38) University: Black Mountain College (briefly in 1938) University: University of California at Berkeley (1948-50) Professor: Black Mountain College (1956)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1963 Adopted Risk Factors: Sciatica
Is the subject of books:
Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society, 1983, BY: Faas
Author of books:
Heavenly City, Earthly City (1947) Caesar's Gate: Poems, 1949-50 (1955, poetry) The Opening of the Field (1960, poetry) Roots and Branches (1964, poetry) The Years as Catches: First Poems, 1939–1946 (1966, poetry) A Book of Resemblances: Poems, 1950-1953 (1966, poetry) The First Decade: Selected Poems, 1940-1950 (1968, poetry) Derivations: Selected Poems, 1950–56 (1968, poetry) Bending the Bow (1968, poetry) Tribunals (1970, poetry) Ground Work: Before the War (1984, poetry) Ground Work II: In the Dark (1987, poetry)
Wrote plays:
Faust Foutu (1959) Medea at Kolchis (1965)
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