Essays derived from a symposium held at Stanford University on November 7th and 8th, 2003 to mark the publication of The letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.
Decision at the apogee : Robert Duncan's anarchist critique of Denise Levertov / Robert J. Bertholf
Robert Duncan and the question of law : Ernst Kantorowicz and the poet's two bodies / Graça Capinha
Better to stumble to it : the start of Duncan's Letters, poems 1953-1956 / Devin Johnston
Visions of the field in poetry and painting : Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and John Button / Donna Krolik Hollenberg
My stories with Robert Duncan / Ellen Tallman
The people's p***k : a dialectical tale / Aaron Shurin
The Hasid and the kabbalist / John Felstiner
Chelsea 8 : political poetry at midcentury / Brett Millier
Poetic authority and the public sphere of politics in the activist 60s : the Duncan-Levertov debate / Anne Dewey
Prophetic frustrations : Robert Duncan's Tribunals / Peter O'Leary
Revolution or death : Levertov's poetry in time of war / Jose Rodriguez Herrera
The vision of a burning babe : Southwell, Levertov, and Duncan / Paul A. Lacey
Poetic language and language poetry : Levertov, Duncan, Creeley / Albert Gelpi.
Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov : the poetry of politics, the politics of poetry. ISBN 9780804751315. Published by Stanford University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.