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Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography

Lisa Jarnot

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#2311 of 3,809 books · #834 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2012).

This text is a biography of Robert Duncan, one of America's great postwar poets. The author takes the reader from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for many poets and painters around him.

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Publisher
Univ of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520234161
Topics
American poetryLGBTQ historySan Francisco literary scene

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