Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene

This paper, composed formally as an homage to Duncan’s own use of the “daybook” model, re-reads The H.D. Book as a treatise on time, working out a poetics in response to Charles Olson’s challenge, posed in the essay “Against Wisdom as Such,” to conceive of the poetic act as a practice of “bending ti...

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Main Author: Stephen Collis
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Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2020-12-01
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title Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene
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title_fullStr Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene
title_full_unstemmed Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene
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Charles Olson
the Anthropocene
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