Foreword Robert Duncan and Je...

Foreword

Robert Duncan and Jes Collins lived at Banabulfar upon the northwest coast of Mallorca from March 1955 to March 1956 They made common trip to continental Europe; in December 1955 they went to Paris, where Duncan wrote the final metrical composition of the book Letters, and then in January 1956 to London, where Duncan wrote the first version of "Often I Am Permitted to turn back to a Meadow," or the beginning of The Opening of the Field. While onward Mallorca Duncan and Jess knew Robert Creeley and finished a work of poems and collages, Caesar's Gate, which was then published by way of ...