Robert Duncan Poems

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

by Robert Duncan

‘Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow’ by Robert Duncan is often regarded as the poet’s best work. It analyzes the poet’s dream of a meadow while also exploring the new technique of projective verse.

‘Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow’ is one of Robert Duncan's very best works. Surprisingly, it was also one of his earliest published poems. It is an excellent example of the poet's go-to themes of religious thought, life, death, and meaning. However, it also exemplifies the poet's use of original, unique verse form and structure which falls under the category of projective verse.

as if it were a scene made-up by the mind,

that is not mine, but is a made place,

My Mother Would Be a Falconress

by Robert Duncan

‘My Mother Would Be a Falconress’ by Robert Duncan explores a son and mother’s relationship through the lens of a falcon breaking free from his handler.

My mother would be a falconress,

And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist,

would fly to bring back

from the blue of the sky to her, bleeding, a prize,

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