21. The Charles Olson Festival MODEST IN SCALE BUT GRAND in sentiment, qualities of words, and the vista of Gloucester harbor from the stairway windows of City Hall, the charles olson http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/glazier/o-rpt.html

The Charles Olson Festival Honoring the Life and Work of Charles Olson: August 12, 1995 Gloucester City Hall, Gloucester, Mass. A Report [Special thanks to the Poetry Project Newsletter , where this report was first printed.] i. THIS FESTIVAL, which seemed to me under-advertised, certainly had no lack of attendance. The grand City Council Chamber of the Gloucester City Hall was packed from its main floor to its balcony curving around three quarters of the high-ceiling hall, despite nearly unbearable heat (and David McArdle pointed out that the heat was not inappropriate: Olson himself had stood in this same room to argue for the preservation of Gloucester on some equally sultry nights). The hall bore a festival banner beneath a colorful mural of historic Gloucester emblazoned with the words, "Build Not For Today But For Tomorrow As Well" (to which Creeley during his comments added, "and for yesterday") and enormous prints of Lynn Swigart's photographs from Olson's Gloucester (Louisiana State University Press). Though some of the attendees had traveled some distance to the conference-getting there however possible-what struck me most about this festival was its local presence.

22. Charles Olson And "Projective Verse" olson s definitions of Projective Verse, and Composition by Field. http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/proj.verse.html

[I've been reading a biography of Charles Olson, certainly the largest figure in American poetics since Pound and Williams, mentor to Creeley and others of the Black Mountain group, author of the Maximus poems, etc. (He's said to have been the first to use the word "postmodern", incidentally.) Olson wrote a manifesto called Projective Verse, (1) A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. . . . the poem itself must, at all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge. So: how is the poet to accomplish same energy, how is he, what is the process by which a poet get in, at all points energy at least the equivalent of the energy which propelled him in the first place, yet an energy which is peculiar to verse alone and which will be, obviously, also different from the energy which the reader, because he is a third term, will take away? This is the problem which any poet who departs from closed form is specially confronted by. And it involves a whole series of new recognitions. From the moment he ventures into FIELD COMPOSITIONputs himself in the openhe can go by no track other than the one the poem under hand declares, for itself. Thus he has to behave, and be, instant by instant, aware. . . .

23. Charles Olson (1910-1970) (See Clark, charles olson, p. 95.) Does this help us with Back in the title and the use of blood later? Clark suggests that, on one level, http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/olson.html

Charles Olson (1910-1970) Contributing Editor: Thomas R. Whitaker Classroom Issues and Strategies It will be most practical to approach Olson after some detailed work with poems by Eliot Ezra Pound , and William Carlos Williams . Despite many stylistic similarities, Olson's poetic "enactment" dictates a different kind of progression and a different use of literary and other allusions. The teacher might suggest that the formalist concept of a "speaker" or "protagonist" (a character in a poetic drama outside of which the poem's maker is imagined to stand) might be replaced by the poet himself in the act of writing (a self-reflexive Charles Olson in the drama of making this poem). Although Pound's Pisan Cantos , Eliot's Four Quartets , and Williams's Paterson are partially amenable to this approach, Olson commits himself to it more fully in both shorter and longer forms. His abstract style, his refusal to commit himself to the modernist "image," may also be a difficulty. The student can be reminded that all speech, all thought, even an "image," is the result of an abstractive process. Olson characteristically works with syntax and conceptual reference that are "in process"often fragmentary, self-revising, incrementalas he struggles to "say" what is adequate to his present (and always changing) moment. Comparisons with Robert Creeley's often abstract and stammering forward motion may be illuminating.

24. Polis Is This Charles Olson And The Persistence Of Place Much more than a merely brilliant biodocumentary, Ferrini s film about charles olson and Gloucester is an invaluable contribution to our literature. http://www.polisisthis.com/

25. Karl Young On Charles Olson S Maximus To Gloucester Maximus to Gloucester, a collection of letters by charles olson to The Gloucester Times, breaks all the standard parameters. http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/le-ky-co.htm

Maximus to Gloucester; The Letter and Poems of Charles Olson to the Gloucester Times, 1962 - 1969 Edited by Peter Anastas Foreword by Gerrit Lansing Review by Karl Young Maximus to Gloucester , a collection of letters by Charles Olson to The Gloucester Times , breaks all the standard parameters. In fact, if you set out to produce a book counter to the standard, you probably couldn't go farther than this, even if you invented the author, the publisher, the circumstances of publication. One of the unusual circumstances behind this collection is that the editor of the Times, Paul Kenyon, was sensitive and sympathetic to what Olson was doing. The letters were usually printed in generous format with photos and sidebars. Kenyon did not tamper with Olson's style, sometimes reproducing Olson's typewriter script. This may make the Times uniquely perceptive among American newspapers. How many editors in North America are willing to run letters in any kind of verse, particularly what would be for them a highly eccentric type of poetry (consider, for instance, Olson's habit of leaving sentences unfinished), and to publish them in such generous format? Anastas had an extended local readership in mind when publishing the book. The book's second purpose is to reintroduce Olson to Gloucester, this time as poet. Although Olson knew many people in Gloucester and had more friends there than most people do anywhere, his poetry was generally not read by Gloucesterites, except for the pieces in the

26. Charles Olson A reference page on charles olson (1910 1970), poet of projective verse. http://poetry.about.com/cs/20thcenturypoets/p/olson.htm

zOBT=" Ads" zGCID=" test1" zGCID=" test1 test5" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') z160=zpreC(160,600);z336=zpreC(336,280);z728=zpreC(728,90);z133=zpreC(336,133);zItw=160 Poetry var h2=document.getElementsByTagName("h2")[0];if(h2.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].firstChild.nodeValue.length>29)h2.className="long"; Home Education Poetry Search over 1.4 million articles by over 600 experts Search Poetry Poets Reading / Studying Poems Making Poetry ... on the Poetry Forum Charles Olson h1 = document.getElementById("title").getElementsByTagName("h1")[0];h1.innerHTML = widont(h1.innerHTML); By , About.com Filed In: Poetry University of California Press Call Me Ishmael , a study of Melville which connected Moby Dick to the history of American (actually, human) civilization. In 1950 he published Projective Verse Robert Creeley . He later served as rector of the college until it closed in 1957. Olson was the embodiment of Black Mountain its social consciousness, interdisciplinary nature, its experimentalism, its informality. Olson is best known for his Maximus Poems Books by Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems (ed. George F. Butterick, University of California Press, 1983, reprint 1995)

27. Charles Olson An internet bibliography for charles olson, from literaryhistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Olson.htm

Charles Olson (1910 - 1970) A selective bibliography of open access articles on Charles Olson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites main page 20th century poetry 20th century authors 19th century authors Literary criticism Allen, Donald and Benjamin Friedlander (eds.) In a review of The Collected Prose of Charles Olson John Palattella discusses the challenges of reading Charles Olson, "the first postmodern writer." Boston Review, February/ March 1998 (moved) Anastas, Peter (ed.), foreword by Gerrit Lansing. Review of Maximus to Gloucester: The Letter and Poems of Charles Olson to the Gloucester Times, 1962 - 1969 A review of an unusual publishing project, the publication of Olson's letters to the Gloucester Daily Times from 1962 until his final letter in 1969 when, embittered and aware of his impending death, he was still trying to encourage people to create their own mythology out of the material at hand. The book is important, says reviewer Karl Young, because "it firmly and irrefutably throws the emphasis of Olson's work back on the local." In American Book Review, August-September, 1993 Bezner, Kevin.

28. Charles Olson The Collected Poems of charles olson (1987, poetry). Do you know something we don t? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile http://www.nndb.com/people/331/000104019/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Charles Olson AKA Charles John Olson Born: 27-Dec Birthplace: Worcester, MA Died: 10-Jan Location of death: New York City Cause of death: Cancer - Liver Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Maximus Poems Father: Karl Joseph Olson (letter carrier, d. 1935 cerebral hemorrhage) Mother: Mary Theresa Hines Wife: (wife #2, d. 28-Mar-1964 automobile accident) Daughter: Katherine Mary (b. 23-Oct-1951) Son: Charles Peter (b. 12-May-1955) High School: Classical High School, Worcester, MA University: BA, Wesleyan University (1932) University: MA English, Wesleyan University (1933) Teacher: English Instructor, Clark University (1934-36) Teacher: Harvard University (1937) Professor: Radcliffe College (1937) Professor: Black Mountain College Administrator: Rector, Black Mountain College (1951-56) Professor: Modern Literature, SUNY Buffalo (1963-65)

29. Collected Prose The prose writings of charles olson (19101970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on The Collected Poems of charles olson, by charles olson http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6739.html

Subjects: Anthropology Art Film Classical Studies Global Issues History Literature/Poetry Music Natural Sciences Religion Sociology DISTRIBUTED TITLES: British Film Institute Sierra Club Huntington Library Literature American Literature MORE INFO AND CHOICES Email: Charles Olson Collected Prose Edited by Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander. With an introduction by Robert Creeley. $27.50, £16.95 paperback In stockships in 2-3 days 382 pages, 6 x 9 inches, Published December 1997 Available worldwide Categories: Literature American Literature Poetry Literature ... Free online edition (eScholarship) available only to University of California faculty, staff, and students (List of public titles) Explore full text using Google Book Search "Here we are given all of Olson's poetic output, and his range is awesome, taking in the personal, historical, political, cultural in a broad sweep. It is said that Olson redefined poetry in the 1950s." Beat Scene Collected Prose will introduce a new generation of readers to a central modernist and postmodernist thinker in American letters. For the energy of the avant-garde literary project at midcentury, Olson is it. No one else has the excitement or range."Robert Hass "At last we have between two covers some of the most compelling theorizing in postmodern poetics and American Studies ever produced, from one of the defining figures in postwar American poetry. This is that rarest of books, a must-read for poets and scholars alike."Alan Golding

30. Charles Olson The Beat Generation Writers from the Beat Era of American Literature. http://www.levity.com/corduroy/olson.htm

Charles Olson The question, the fear he raises up himself against (against the same each act is proffered, under the eyes am I? from "In Cold Hell, in Thicket" In the winter of 1944-1945, in his mid-thirties, Charles Olson rejected a promising political career in the Roosevelt administration and turned to writing prose and poetry. His study of Herman Melville, Call Me Ishmael , appeared in 1947, followed shortly by this first book of poetry, , in 1948. The same year, Olson began a series of lectures at Black Mountain College, an experimental institution in North Carolina, where his success led to his replacing his mentor Edward Dahlberg as a visiting lecturer. Olson worte his best early poetry at Black Mountain, including "In Cold Hell, in Thicket" and "The Kingfishers," as well as his manifest "Projective Verse," published in Poetry New York in 1950. From 1951 until its closing in 1956, Olson served as rector of Black Mountain College, inviting poets such as Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan to teach. By 1960, the year in which he published The Distances , Olson was recognized as a major figure of American poetry.

31. Literary Gloucester Pays Tribute To The Writers, Past And Present, Of Cape Ann, charles olson knew me before I knew him. He once told me that he used to see my mother wheeling me up and down the Boulevard in my baby carriage. http://www.valentine-design.com/Literary/olson.htm

Charles Olson in Gloucester by Peter Anastas Or my dragger who goes home with arete: when his wife complains he smells like his Aunt who works for the De-Hy he whips out his pay and says, how does this smell? I like to think that Olson wanted me to go to Europe. Certainly he was encouraging that first night, as Vera and Albert, who had taught me my first Italian, had always been. Olson must have known more than I did that I would need to discover my roots in the Mediterranean before I could understand myself as an American, indeed, before I could realize what having been born in Gloucester meant. Peter Anastas is the editor of Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of the Gloucester Daily Times , 1962-1969 and author of, most recently, the novel No Fortunes . This memoir was published in Larcom Review, Spring / Summer 1999 and reprinted in Minutes of the Charles Olson Society # 47/48 (November 2002). RETURN TO INDEX NEXT LINKS VISIT GLOUCESTER WRITES Literary Gloucester is sponsored by and by the Hovey House Writer's Group All work shown on this site is the property of Valentine Design or Parlez-Moi Press.

32. Slought Foundation: "Charles Olson At Goddard College, 1962: Reading" With Charl charles olson (19101970) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late Forties his work received major attention. He was writing teacher and then http://www.slought.org/content/11091/

"Charles Olson at Goddard College, 1962: Reading" Charles Olson Download Audio (115 min) Press Kit PDF Download Event Date: Thursday, April 12, 1962 Location: Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont) Olson at Goddard College, 1962 Series Transcribed by Kyle Schlesinger Charles Olson (1910-1970) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late Forties his work received major attention. He was writing teacher and then rector at Black Mountain College, where Robert Creeley later taught. Volumes of Charles Olson's poetry include The Maximus Poems, and The Collected Poems. Kyle Schlesinger is a poet and doctoral candidate in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. He is the editor of Cuneiform Press and collaboratively edits Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose. Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License To Cite this Page using MLA Style: Charles Olson. "Charles Olson at Goddard College, 1962: Reading." Slought Foundation Online Content [12 April 1962; Accessed 27 January 2008].

33. Olson, Charles (Harper's Magazine) THINGS CONNECTED TO “olson, charles”. HUMAN BEINGS. Barzun, Jacques Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de Betjeman, John, Sir Butterick, George F. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/CharlesOlson

HOME SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SUBJECTS ... SKIP to main content USERNAME PASSWORD Subscriber? Lost password? Olson, Charles WRITER OF 1 Poem from 1946 SUBJECT OF 2 Reviews from 1961 to 1983 CONNECTIONS HAS BORN DATE HAS DIED DATE HUMAN BEINGS Barzun, Jacques Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de Betjeman, John, Sir Butterick, George F. ... Warner, Rex WRITERS Howard Nemerov Robert Creeley Poetize or bust: Poetry isn't what it used to be, but then it never was by Hugh Kenner Books/Review, September 1983 , 4 pp. Harper's Magazine is an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts published from 1850. Subscriptions start at $16.97 a year. About Harper's Contact Harper's Advertising information

34. Polis Is This: Charles Olson And The Persistence Of Place - Movies - The Phoenix Ferrini and Riaf present the complex American literary figure charles olson (1910–1970) in a clear way by focusing not on the facts of his life but on the http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid47252.aspx

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35. Charles Olson Quotes 28 quotes and quotations by charles olson. charles olson I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. charles olson http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_olson.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Charles Olson Quotes Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: December 27 Date of Death: January 10 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Charles Olson Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman ... T. S. Eliot Atlantis will rise again. Charles Olson Fact is based upon vulgar matter. Charles Olson Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. Charles Olson I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. Charles Olson I couldn't write a canto if I sat down and deliberately tried. My interest is not in cantos. It's in another condition of a song. Charles Olson I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Charles Olson I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Charles Olson I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. Charles Olson I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago. Charles Olson I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

36. Charles Olson Books For Sale - Includes Signed Books charles olson books for sale includes first editions, ephemera. http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/books/olson.html

Books for Sale! Browse books for sale, by author or category Search for books: View shopping cart About / Contact Us About Empty Mirror Books How to contact us How to link to us Site map Beat Generation Info Beat Generation biographies Ted Joans Lives! Michael McClure bibliography Jack Kerouac bibliography etc. ... Articles, reviews, art, more! Book Collecting Info Publishing Info Advice on publishing poetry Services for Writers Custom websites for writers Web promotion for writers The Third Page The Third Page: A Journal of Ongrowing Natures Charles Olson Books purchasing info Click "add to cart" to pay securely with a credit card or e-check. PayPal is our payment processor, but you don't need a PayPal account to pay that way. Click here to view your shopping cart. ordering info page Click thumbnails a larger view. Photos are low-resolution for fast viewing. For expedited shipping, additional photos, or questions, please email us. books for sale [004243] Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael: A Study of Melville. [004164] Olson, Charles. A Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn . San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1964. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Published as Writing No. 1. Distributed by City Lights Books. 16 pages, stapled in butterscotch wrappers. Ownership signature/date inside front cover (Paul de Simone, 1971), a little wear at edges where covers slightly overhang text, else about fine. $19.95

37. Polis Is This: Charles Olson And The Persistence Of Place (2007) Directed by Henry Ferrini. With Ammiel Alcalay, Willie Alexander, Amiri Baraka. Explores charles olson s amazing world, where the ordinary landscapes of our http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092086/

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38. Harvard University Press: Charles Olson : The Scholar's Art By Robert Von Hallbe charles olson The Scholar s Art by Robert Von Hallberg, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/VONCHA.html

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39. Charles Olson Criticism charles olson Criticism and Essays. charles olson 1910–1970. (Full name charles John olson) American poet and essayist. http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/olson-charles

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Charles Olson Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Charles Olson 1910–1970 (Full name Charles John Olson) American poet and essayist. INTRODUCTION Olson was a major figure in the Black Mountain school of Post-modernist American poetry. Beginning his career as a poet in middle age, he developed considerable influence as a lecturer at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, as well as through his poems and essays on literary theory. Deeply influenced by Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, he attempted to carry on their innovations while discovering his own radically new means of expression. Seeking to break from conventional poetics, he tried to make his work spontaneous, reflecting the rhythms of ordinary conversation. He rejected the traditional European-influenced system of symbols, images, and classical allusions in poetry, preferring to express a world view that was multicultural yet specifically rooted in the American of his time. Biographical Information While growing up in Massachusetts, Olson spent his summers in the fishing village of Gloucester, which would later become the focus of what critics regard as his most important work, the three-volume epic cycle known as

40. Charles Olson By Tom Clark - Books - Random House A lapsed Catholic, olson (19101970) turned to Sumerian myths, Mayan legends and Islamic mysticism for cosmic insights that would inform poems of cyclic http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?9781556433429

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