Bending the Bow

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In BENDING THE BOW [...] Robert Duncan is writing on a scale that places him among the poets, after Walt Whitman, bold enough to attempt the personal epic, the large-canvas rendering of man's spirit in history as one man sees it, feels it, lives it, and makes it his own. [From the inside cover.] Preface i - x Sonnet 4 3 Structure of Rime XXII 4 5th Sonnet 5 Such Is The Sickness of Many a Good Thing Bending the Bow 7 Tribal Memories, Passages 1 9 At The Loom, Passages 2 11 What I Saw, Passages 3 14 Where It Appears, Passages 4 15 The Moon, Passages 5 17 The Collage, Passages 6 19 Envoy, Passages 7 22 Structure of Rime XXIII 23 As In The Old Days, Passages 8 24 The Architecture, Passages 9 26 These Past Years, Passages 10 29 Shadows, Passages 11 31 Wine^ Passages 12 34 Structure of Rime XXIV 3 6 Structure of Rime XXV 37 Reflections 38 The Fire, Passages 13 40 Chords, Passages 14 46 SpelHng, Passages 15 48 A Lammas Tiding 51 "My Mother Would Be A Falconress" 52 Saint Graal (after Verlaine) ^^ Parsifal (after Verlaine and Wagner) ^6 The Currents, Passages 16 58 Moving the Moving Image, Passages 17 60 The Torso, Passages 18 6} The Earth, Passages 19 66 An Illustration, Passages 20 (Structure of Rime XXVI) 68 The Multiversity, Passages 21 70 In The Place Of A Passage 22 74 Benefice, Passages 23 y6 Orders, Passages 24 77 Up Rising, Passages 25 81 The Chimeras of Gérard de Nerval 84 El Desdichado Myrtho Horus Anteros Delphica Artemis The Christ in the Olive Grove Golden Lines Earth's Winter Song 93 Moira's Cathedral 95 A Shrine to Ameinias 97 Narration for Adam's Way 101 The Soldiers, Passages 16 112 Transgressing the Real, Passages 17 120 The Light, Passages 28 122 Eye of God, Passages 29 124 Stage Directions, Passages 30 128 God-Spell 133 Epilogos 134 Notes