Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture. Never before published, the letters capture their shared passion for knowledge as well as their distinct writing styles. Written between 1961 and Olson's death in 1970, the letters display the mutual admiration and intimacy that developed between the two poets after Prynne initiated their exchange when pursuing work for the literary magazine Prospect. This work illustrates how Olson and Prynne influenced each other, and it represents an important step toward understanding their contributions to poetics on both sides of the Atlantic.

Volume 2 of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. On the Poems of J.H. Prynne. Edited by Ryan Dobran. Contents: RYAN DOBRAN, Introduction JOSH STANLEY, Back On Into The Way Home: "Charm Against Too Many Apples" The White Stones, 1969]; THOMAS ROEBUCK & MATTHEW SPERLING, "The Glacial Question, Unsolved" A Specimen Commentary on Lines 1-31 The White Stones, 1969] ROBIN PURVES, A Commentary on J.H. Prynne's "Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform" The White Stones, 1969] REITHA PATTISON, J.H. Prynne's "The Corn Burned by Syrius" The White Stones, 1969] KESTON SUTHERLAND, Hilarious absolute daybreak Brass, 1971] MICHAEL STONE-RICHARDS, The time of the subject in the neurological field (I): A Commentary on J.H. Prynne's "Again in the Black Cloud" Wound Response, 1974] JUSTIN KATKO, Relativistic Phytosophy: Towards a Commentary on "The Plant Time Manifold Transcripts" Wound Response, 1974] JOHN WILKINSON, Heigh Ho: A Partial Gloss of Word Order Word Order, 1989] Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory. GLOSSATOR.ORG