Description: This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics.
Brief description: James Maynard is the curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. His edition of Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose received the Poetry Foundation's 2014 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He is currently editing a volume of Duncan's uncollected prose.
Review Quotes: Maynard illuminates how Duncan's encounters with Pragmatist process philosophy helped catalyze one of the richest, most groundbreaking bodies of poetic art created since 1940.--Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley