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Robert Duncan, Pre-eminent Poet
Topics: Robert Edward Symmes,
Robert Duncan,
Bakersfield
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Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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Born in Oakland in 1919 and raised as a foster child in Bakersfield, where he grew up as Robert Edward Symmes, Duncan became one of the West's pre-eminent poets after World War II. He was identified with several major movements in American poetry in the '50s and '60s.
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