Download or read book Bending the Bow written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1968 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bending the Bow, Robert Duncan is writing on a scale which places him among the poets, after Walt Whitman, bold enough to attempt the personal epic, the large-canvas rendering of man's spirit in history as one man sees it, feels it, lives it, and makes it his own.