Selected Poems of Charles OlsonUniversity of California Press, 1993 - 225 Seiten "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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Move Over | 3 |
At Yorktown | 13 |
For Sappho Back | 22 |
To Gerhardt There Among Europes Things of Which | 28 |
The Ring of | 40 |
The Thing Was Moving | 47 |
The Death of Europe | 54 |
A Newly Discovered Homeric Hymn | 63 |
John Burke | 128 |
MAXIMUS FROM DOGTOWNI | 139 |
Maximus to Gloucester Letter 27 withheld | 147 |
A Later Note on Letter 15 | 155 |
And now let all the ships come in | 163 |
I looked up and saw | 169 |
Imbued with the light | 175 |
Swimming through the air in schools upon the highways | 191 |
The chain of memory is resurrection | 65 |
As snow lies on the hill | 97 |
The Twist | 104 |
a Plantation a beginning | 110 |
Some Good News | 117 |
Bottled up for days 1 | 200 |
The boats lights in the dawn now going so swiftly | 209 |
Added to making a Republic | 218 |
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