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Modern American Poetry compiled and prepared by Cary Nelson

Electronic Poetry Center

By Charles Olson

Projective Verse (excerpt)

About Charles Olson

Robert Creeley's Preface to Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life by Tom Clark?

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He studied at Wesleyan University and Yale University and earned degrees at Harvard University where he taught from 1936 to 1939. As the rector of Black Mountain College, North Carolina during the 1950s he influenced a generation of writers and artists. A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Olson helped to define postmodern poetics. His poetry is marked by an extraordinary range of interest and depth of feeling in a voice which is at once distinctively American and universal, intimate and yet grand.

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San Francisco State University, 1957

Interviews

The Art of Poetry no.12: Charles Olson Paris Review Interview with Gerard Malanga (1970)

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