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On February 24, 1973, Robert Duncan published the following quatrain as a broadside from Ārif Press:
Time to return to Gertrude Stein to the hesitating glitter of the stone that breaks along the line of ancient fault.1
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Norman Finkelstein, “Late Duncan: From Poetry to Scripture,” Twentieth-Century Literature 51, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 345.
See, e.g., Jeff Hamilton, “Letters, Abroad and Back,” Chicago Review 51 (Spring 2005): 248–49
Jayne L. Walker, “Exercises in Disorder: Duncan’s Imitations of Gertrude Stein,” in Robert Duncan: Scales of the Marvelous, ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Ian W. Reid (New York: New Directions, 1979), 22–35.
Gertrude Stein, The Gertrude Stein Reader, ed. Richard Kostelanetz (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002), 140. This passage is taken from Stein’s “Many Many Women,” one of the two “shorter stories” mentioned in GMP’s subtitle.
Ulla Dydo, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923–1934 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003)
Steven Meyer, Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003).
Nathaniel Mackey, Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000), 95.
Gertrude Stein, How to Write (New York: Dover, 1975), 123.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943), 39.
Joseph Francese, “On Homoerotic Tension in Michelangelo’s Poetry,” MLN 117, no. 1 (2002): 20.
Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America (Boston: Virago, 1988), 166–67.
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Reed, B.M. (2011). Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing Writing to Ground Work II. In: Maynard, J. (eds) (Re:)Working the Ground. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119932_11
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