Robert Duncan

 

Bakersfield High School, 1936

Robert Duncan

At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley
After the New York style

1 Beginning with sonnets for Ted Berrigan Turning on poetry and I’m off Along lines Ginsberg is reading to places It takes a line in here I have not heard Beautiful yellow cheeks and jowls Marking an uneven stanza off with jewels Little girls reading all the way thru 88 Highway into some part of Oregon Goddess of music and poetry by-pass Where Allen Ginsberg says ‘This’  A line for you in your own collection It is eight forty-five and two more For closing we need something lovely That will lead on to closing doors we see.           2 Same evening. Can anybody. Turning on poetry I have not heard Ham it up so and still get down From there he takes O’Hara Who never really went there where he did not come. From. They said. He did little girls reading all This one in a Black Mountain Berrigan imitation North Carolina Lovely needed poem for O’Hara and Ashbery again going towards the Pound Cantos with ashes and berries for the Contempt they feel and gratitude and for the puns’ sake Dogs barking along another shore. You never gave me my road. What could I do for you?