Tribunals (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Howard Duncan
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Art or artists, Vietnam War, Good and evil, Hell, Government, Civil wars, Counterculture, Senses or sensation, Pleasure
The Poem
The five poems whose group title is Tribunals form part of a much longer sequence called Passages. The publication of Passages spans several books by Robert Duncan. He began to compose them in 1964, and a considerable number of them can be found in his 1968 book Bending the Bow. The poems in Passages are open in form, built up of phrasings defined by various lengths of white space, and usually several pages in length. They tend to “cluster,” so that, as with Tribunals, thematic as well as formal considerations help unite a...
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