Selected Poems of Charles Olson
Charles Olson, "Selected Poems of Charles Olson "
English | ISBN: 0520212320 | 1997 | 246 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0520212320 | 1997 | 246 pages | PDF | 5 MB
"I have assumed a great deal in the selection of the poems from such a large and various number, making them a discourse unavoidably my own as well as any Olson himself might have chosen to offer. I had finally no advice but the long held habit of our using one another, during his life, to act as a measure, a bearing, an unabashed response to what either might write or say."―Robert Creeley
A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry embraces themes of empowering love, political responsibility, the wisdom of dreams, the intellect as a unit of energy, the restoration of the archaic, and the transformation of consciousness―all carried in a voice both intimate and grand, American and timeless, impassioned and coolly demanding.
In this selection of some 70 poems, Robert Creeley has sought to present a personal reading of Charles Olson's decisive and inimitable work―"unequivocal instances of his genius"―over the many years of their friendship.
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