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Robert Duncan in San Francisco

Michael Rumaker
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Pages
146
Year
2013
Language
English
Publisher
City Lights Publishers

About

After his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-Howl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. Contrasting Duncan's daringly frank homosexuality with Rumaker's own then-closeted life, Robert Duncan in San Francisco conjures up with harrowing detail an era of police prosecution of a clandestine gay community struggling to survive in the otherwise "open city" of San Francisco. This expanded edition includes a selection of previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan, and an interview conducted for this edition, in which Rumaker provides further reflections on the poet and the period.

Related Subjects

  • American
  • Poetry
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Artists, Architects, Photographers
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Gay Studies
  • LGBTQ+ Studies
  • Social Science
  • 20th Century
  • United States
  • History
  • Lgbtq+

Reviews

"This is a wonderfully revealing account of a series of life-changing collisions between a young writer (Rumaker), an older writer (Duncan), a still older mentor for both (Charles Olson), a city (San Francisco), and an important era in American literature (the 1950's), when it was being turned upside down by these individuals and their friends. It's also a tender and intelligent account of a young
Russell Banks, author of Cloudsplitter
"Robert Duncan in San Francisco offers a surprising portrait of a mentor in all his witty, wicked, luminous, and vulnerable complexity. Straddling the lines of memoir and cultural history, Michael Rumaker gives a rare and delightful view of Duncan at home in the gay community while also documenting the struggles of that community in 1950's America."
Lisa Jarnot, author of Robert Dunan, The Ambassador from Venus
"In this fine memoir of this 16 months in San Francisco, Rumaker learns many lessons about being at home with who he is, in what calls Robert's city."
Joanne Kyger, About Now: Collected Poems

Artists

Michael RumakerAuthor