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Robert Duncan
American poet
Also known as: Edward Howard Duncan, Robert Edward Duncan, Robert Edward Symmes
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Robert Edward Duncan
- Original name:
- Edward Howard Duncan
- Adopted name:
- Robert Edward Symmes
- Born:
- January 7, 1919, Oakland, California, U.S.
- Died:
- February 3, 1988, San Francisco, California (aged 69)
- Movement / Style:
- Black Mountain poets
Robert Duncan (born January 7, 1919, Oakland, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1988, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets in the 1950s. Duncan attended the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936–38 and 1948–50. He edited the Experimental Review from 1938 to 1940 and traveled widely thereafter, lecturing on poetry in the United States and Canada throughout the 1950s. He taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1956. He was a longtime resident of San Francisco and was active in that city’s poetry community. Duncan’s poetry is evocative and highly ...(100 of 183 words)