Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan (born January 7, 1919, Oakland, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1988, San Francisco, California) was an American poet and a leader of the Black Mountain group of poets of the 1950s. Duncan’s mother died in childbirth, and he was adopted by a couple who practiced theosophy, a religious philosophy characterized by esoteric doctrine and an interest in occult phenomena. His adoptive parents had selected him on the basis of the configurations of his astrological...