Article: "Not to creation or destruction but to truth": Robert Duncan, Kenneth Anger, and the conversation between film and poetry.(Critical essay)

Aesthetic values characterized in part by serial form, liberatory depictions of male queerness, and an allegiance to or engagement with hermetic magic practices are generally recognized as part of Robert Duncan's overall poetics. This essay is a modest attempt to situate those poetics within the context of Robert Duncan's decades-long friendship with filmmaker Kenneth Anger. I write this primarily because no published work has as yet investigated the possibility that "New American" or "Underground" Cinema (1) had an effect on Duncan's work, despite the fact of Duncan's well-known interactions with filmmakers including Anger, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, and others.

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