Gnostic Contagion
Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness
Peter O'Leary

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by UPNE



Contents

• Prologue
• Duncan and H.D. Gnostic Therapy
• Robert Duncan, Theoretician of Illness
• The Myth of “My Mother Would be a Falconress”
• Deep Trouble/ Deep Treble Nathaniel Mackey’s Gnostic Rasp
• Epilogue Does the Poem Heal?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index




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