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Contemporary Olson (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Olson (Hardcover)
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As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the
possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his
pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The
Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space
and community. Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, he
provided radical resources for the re-imagining of place and
politics, resources for collective thought and creative practice we
are still learning how to use. Re-situating Olson's work in
relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays
assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of
his place in postwar poetry and culture. Through a series of
contextualising chapters, discussions of individual poems and
reflections on Olson's legacy by leading international writers and
critics, the book presents a poet who still informs contemporary
poetry, whose thought and compositional innovations continue to
provoke. Remote as some of his fascinations must now seem, Olson is
shown nonetheless to offer a poetry and poetics that speaks clearly
to our own fraught historical moment. Contemporary Olson opens this
major writer to new readings and new readers. -- .
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