Robert Duncan, the Ambassador From Venus by Jarnot, Lisa -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Textual Notes Part One Childhood’s Retreat

1 · The Antediluvian World 2 · Native Son of the Golden West 3 · The Architecture 4 · A Part in the Fabulous 5 · The Wasteland 6 · The Fathering Dream

Part Two Toward the Shaman

7 · The Little Freshman Yes 8 · A Company of Women 9 · The Dance 10 · From Romance to Ritual 11 · Queen of the Whores 12 · Enlisted 13 · Marriage 14 · Divorce

Part Three The Enamord Mage

15 · The End of the War 16 · The Round Table 17 · The First Poetry Festival 18 · The Venice Poem 19 · Indian Tales 20 · The Song of the Borderguard 21 · The Way to Shadow Garden 22 · The Workshop 23 · Mallorca 24 · Caesar’s Gate

Part Four The Opening of the Field

25 · The Meadow 26 · New York Interlude 27 · The San Francisco Scene 28 · Olson, Whitehead, and the Magic Workshop 29 · The Maidens 30 · Elfmere 31 · Night Scenes 32 · H. D. 33 · Go East 34 · Apprehensions

Part Five The Nasty Aesthetician

35 · The Will 36 · The Playhouse 37 · The Political Machine 38 · Knight Errant 39 · The Vancouver Conference 40 · Bending the Bow 41 · A Night Song 42 · Anger 43 · The Berkeley Conference 44 · The Sixties

Part Six Domestic Scenes

45 · The Household 46 · The Summer of Love 47 · Days of Rage 48 · Ground-Work 49 · Helter Skelter 50 · Santa Cruz Propositions 51 · The Torn Cloth 52 · Despair in Being Tedious 53 · The Cult of the Gods 54 · Elm Park Road 55 · Riverside 56 · The Heart of Rime

Part Seven Troubadour

57 · An Alternate Life 58 · Cambridge 59 · The Avant-Garde 60 · Adam, Eve, and Jahweh 61 · San Francisco’s Burning 62 · At Sea 63 · The Cherubim 64 · Alaska 65 · Enthralled

Part Eight The Master of Rime

66 · New College 67 · Five Songs 68 · A Paris Visit 69 · Bard 70 · The Baptism of the Blood 71 · Hekatombe 72 · The Year of Duncan 73 · The Circulation of the Blood 74 · In the Dark

Notes Works Cited Credits Index