Person Detail: Robert Edward Duncan

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General Information:
Full Name: Robert Edward Duncan
Biography: (1919-1988) Poet. Robert Duncan lived briefly in Woodstock, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1919		(Unknown) County Edward Howard Duncan, Jr. was born in Oakland, California, in 1919. He was adopted in 1920 and renamed Robert Edward Symmes. In 1941 he changed his name to Robert Edward Duncan.
1988		(Unknown) County Robert Duncan died in 1988.
1940		Ulster County Duncan moved to Woodstock, New York, in about 1940 and lived there briefly on a commune run by James Cooney. He worked on Cooney's magazine "The Phoenix."
1960		(Unknown) County The Opening Of The Field (Pub: New York: Grove Press, 1960; reprinted, London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; and New York: New Directions, 1973. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1968		(Unknown) County Bending The Bow (Pub: New York: New Directions. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1969		(Unknown) County Derivations Selected From 1950-1956 (Pub: London: Fulcrum Press. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1983		(Unknown) County Groundwork I: Before The War (Pub: New York: New Directions. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1987		(Unknown) County Groundwork II: In The Dark (Pub: New York: New Directions. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1947		(Unknown) County Heavenly City, Earthly City (Pub: Berkeley: Bern Porter. ISBN: ) Collectioin of poetry.
1950		(Unknown) County Medieval Scenes (Pub: San Francisco: Centaur Press. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1958		(Unknown) County Letters Poems MCMLIII-MCMLVI (Pub: Highlands, North Carolina: Jargon. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1964		(Unknown) County Roots And Branches (Pub: New York: Scribners, 1964; reprinted, New York: New Directions, 1968; and London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1970		(Unknown) County Tribunals Passages 31-35 (Pub: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.