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We’re thrilled to announce that Lisa Jarnot’s book Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus (August 2012) has been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle prize. This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), one of America’s great postwar poets. Jarnot takes us from Duncan’s birth in Oakland, California, through [more...]  This year, as in years past, UC Press is a proud sponsor of National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. We thought this would be a good time to reflect a bit on a special Fall 2011 success, take a close look at our Spring 2012 titles, and finally give you a [more...] The just-released H.D. Book, Robert Duncan’s homage to the modernist poet H.D. that eventually developed into a unique quest toward a new poetics, is turning heads in literary circles, and not just because of that handsome photo on the cover. Publishers Weekly, Bookforum, The New Republic, and The Nation have all praised the book for the [more...] Today through Saturday, April 24, the Chicago Poetry Project is co-sponsoring The Truth and Life of Myth, a Robert Duncan Symposium. “The surety of the myth for the poet has such force that it operates as a primary reality in itself, having volition. The mythic content comes to us, commanding the design of the poem; it [more...] The University of California Press and the Jess Collins Trust are pleased to announce the re-launch of an important publishing project: The Collected Writings of Robert [more...] |
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