Robert Duncan, 3: The Collected Later Poems and Plays Trees the Amazonian tribal chieftain of

the Amazonian tribal chieftain of the indigenous Suruí people

Fearful for her safety

But there are new responsibilities too

a will to escape what he termed the 'sham side of modern life' led him to undertake a quest to live off the land for some two months

Robert Duncan, 3: The Collected Later Poems and Plays Trees the Amazonian tribal chieftain ofProfoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919 1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid and late 20th century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan's collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle