{"product_id":"robert-duncan-in-san-francisco-paperback","title":"Robert Duncan in San Francisco - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Rumaker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-\u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eRobert Duncan in San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e 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open city of San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition includes a selection of previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan, and an interview conducted for this edition, in which Rumaker provides further reflections on the poet and the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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a wonderfully revealing account of a series of lifechanging 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 1950s), when it was being turned upside down by these individuals and their friends. It's also a tender and intelligent account of a young man's coming to grips with being gay in the midst of this upheaval. Much more than memoir; it's history.--Russell Banks, author of \u003cem\u003eCloudsplitter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobert Duncan in San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e 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 1950s America.--Lisa Jarnot, author of \u003cem\u003eRobert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fine memoir of this 16 months in San Francisco, Rumaker learns many lessons about being at home with who he is, in what he calls 'Robert's city.'--Joanne Kyger, \u003cem\u003eAbout Now: Collected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Rumaker has written several novels and short story collections, as well as the memoir \u003cem\u003eBlack Mountain Days\u003c\/em\u003e. He was born in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Black Mountain College--where Duncan served as his outside thesis advisor--and Columbia University. He taught at City University of New York and the New School for Social Research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Duncan (1919-1988) was an American poet and well-known as a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. City Lights published a book of his poetry titled \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Rumaker is an American author (born March 5, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA, to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker). He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. His first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. His short stories, \u003cem\u003eGringos and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 1967. A revised and expanded version appeared in 1991. He began to write directly about his life as a gay man in the volumes \u003cem\u003eA Day and a Night at the Baths\u003c\/em\u003e (1979) and \u003cem\u003eMY FIRST SATYRNALIA\u003c\/em\u003e (1981). The novel \u003cem\u003ePagan Days\u003c\/em\u003e (1991) is told from the perspective of an eight-year old boy struggling to understand his gay self. \u003cem\u003eBlack Mountain Days\u003c\/em\u003e, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element; in addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758103626016,"sku":"9780872865907","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3e7a3ab3c6324ca74d8cbb32f74d71d3.webp?v=1780118083","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/robert-duncan-in-san-francisco-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}