Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime

James Maynard is the curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. His edition of Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose received the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He is currently editing a volume of Duncan’s uncollected prose.

Maynard illuminates how Duncan’s encounters with Pragmatist process philosophy helped catalyze one of the richest, most groundbreaking bodies of poetic art created since 1940."" - Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley""This book is a treasure trove of archival gems that Maynard has unearthed in his many years of residence among the poet’s papers."" - Stephen Fredman, editor of A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry