Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan, San Francisco, October 1, 1984, San Francisco – photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate

January 7th – Robert Duncan‘s birthday, born January 7, 1919 in Oakland, California

We salute him and remember his extraordinary achievements today.

See earlier postings on Duncan on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here and here and here

also vintage footage of him reading and lecturing, back in 1976, at the Bay Area series in Novato –  here, here, here, here, and here

The “Ambassador from Venus”, the poet, the mage.

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