“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…This essay argues that Robert Duncan’s conception of his poet self as “a made up thing and at the same time a depth in which my being is” from The Years as Catches links his poetics to his sexuality and that Duncan, at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area “poetry wars,” becomes a source of grand permission in “queer belonging” for New Narrative writers, specifically Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. …”
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Utopian Gossip: “The Homosexual in Society” from Robert Duncan to New Narrative by Eric Sneathen

“…The second half of the essay considers how New Narrative writers related to Duncan and his essay, including a shared interest in gossip. …”
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