Coda
The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21671434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Halpern (Eastern Michigan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sillages critiques (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1272-3819 • E-ISSN: 1969-6302 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/sillagescritiques.10777 |
| OpenAlex | W3127575374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This is a hybrid work of creative scholarship: a lyrical essay that blends personal history with literary criticism. In it, I question my apprenticeship with Duncan when I was a young twenty-something, as I was struggling to understand what it might mean to be a “good gay poet.” In 1987, I traveled with a copy of Duncan’s The Opening of the Field, and while I could not fully comprehend the poems, the book nevertheless offered me a model – for better and for worse – for sublimating my sexuality during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. Now, thirty-two years later, I return to Duncan’s first “mature” work in an effort to better understand both the book and myself
Aesthetics · Apprenticeship · Art · Art history · Biography · Coda · Creative writing · Criticism · Human sexuality · Literature · Poetry · Scholarship · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |