The Opening of the Field

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The Opening of the Field is a landmark 1960 poetry collection by Robert Duncan that helped define the innovative, myth-infused poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWith Black Mountain–influenced poetics
projective verse tradition
author Robert Duncan
contributedTo recognition of Robert Duncan as a major American poet
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReputation landmark work of the San Francisco Renaissance
major work of 20th-century American poetry
followedBy Bending the Bow
Roots and Branches
genre poetry
hasForm free verse
open-field composition
hasInfluenceOn Language poets
New American Poetry
surface form: New American Poetry tradition

later experimental and avant-garde poets in the United States
hasPoeticStyle innovative poetics
myth-infused poetics
influenced postwar American poetry
isConsidered a central text in Robert Duncan’s oeuvre
language English
literaryMovement San Francisco Renaissance
notablePoem Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
partOf Robert Duncan’s later-life trilogy of major collections
periodOfComposition 1950s
poeticTechnique long-lined verse
lyric sequences
serial composition
publicationYear 1960
publisher Grove Press
setting largely interior and visionary landscapes
theme cosmology
history
love
myth
the imagination
usesIntertextualityWith literary predecessors such as Ezra Pound
literary predecessors such as H.D.
mythological sources
occult and esoteric traditions

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