Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime

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

""This book is a treasure trove of archival gems that Maynard has unearthed in his many years of residence among the poet’s papers."" - Stephen Fredman, editor of A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry