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Charles Olson

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Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970), was a second generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the Language School, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure.

Top songs

  1. I Am the Gold Machine (with Intro.)
  2. Maximus of Gloucester (Only My Written Work)
  3. Into the Stream, Gloucester / The Frontlet / To Enter Into Their Bodies
  4. All My Life I've Heard about Many / Piggy Back Poem
  5. Harbour / Kent Circle / Swung / J.W.
  6. Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester
  7. Maximus, from Dogtown II (with Intro.)
  8. The Ridge
  9. After the Storm Was Over
  10. Her Stern Like a Box / Anacoluthic and Drag
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  1. Going Right Out of the Centuary
  2. Now Called Gravel Hill
  3. Sequentior
  4. To Travel Typhon / Up the Steps / People Want Delivery / The Coast / Tesserae Commissure / Older Than Blybos / Chronicles I / Chronicles II
  5. Untitled Maximus Poem / Vida Upanishad Eda Than / Kent Circle (Wrote My First Poems) / Further Completion of Plot / Maximus Poem - July 24, 1968
  6. Chockablock (Maximus Letter No. Whatever)
  7. I Maximus of Gloucester to You
  8. Caches
  9. Bohlan I and II
  10. Mayan Letter No. 7 (with Intro.) from "Mayan Letters"
  11. Mayan Letter No. 13 (with Intro.) from "Mayan Letters"
  12. Mayan Letter No. 5 (with Intro.) from "Mayan Letters"
  13. John Watts / 3rd Letter on Georges, Unwritten / The Gulf of Maine
  14. Songs of Maximus, Letter 1
  15. Letter 27 Maximus To Gloucester
  16. Maximus, Letter 7 (Marsden Hartly's eyes)
  17. Maximus to Gloucester
  18. Sequentio
  19. In cold hell, in thicket
  20. Gravely Hill
  21. The Love of Anat
  22. I, John Watts
  23. Maximus, Letter 10
  24. Anecdotes of the Late War
  25. Mayan Letter # 5
  26. Maximus, Letter 15
  27. Chronicles
  28. Maximus, The Twist
  29. Maximus to Himself
  30. Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27
  31. Maximus, Letter 14
  32. Chockablock
  33. To Travel Typhon / Up the Steps / People Want Delivery / The Coast / Tesserai Commissure / Older Than Blybos / Chronicles I / Chronicles II
  34. from Maximus 4
  35. Mayan Letter #13
  36. An Ode on Cape Ann
  37. Maximus from Dogtown II
  38. In Cold Hell In Thicket
  39. View
  40. Mayan Letter # 7
  41. The Librarian
  42. In the Harbour / Kent Circle Song / I Swang Out at Eight or Ten / J.W.
  43. 2nd Century Song
  44. Complete Reading
  45. A Maximus ('isms')
  46. The South East Wind
  47. Lectures 1 -- 3
  48. Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 15
  49. John Watts / 3rd Letter on Georges / The Gulf of Maine
  50. Maximus, further on
  51. Three Poems
  52. The rock listens to itself
  53. The Gulf of Maine
  54. I Force the calm grey waters
  55. The O'Ryan Poems
  56. The River #2
  57. Into the Stream, Gloucester / The Frontlet / To Enter Into T
  58. Kingfishers
  59. Maximus from Dogtown 2
  60. The Distances
  61. Letter 27
  62. Mayan Letter No. 7 (With Intro.) [From "Mayan Letters"]
  63. Letter, May 2nd 1959
  64. I Tell You It's cruel
  65. On Black Mountain
  66. So Sassafras
  67. Going Right Out of the Century
  68. Introduction
  69. John Burke
  70. The River #1
  71. Okeanos' dream
  72. Of Old Times
  73. Mayan Letter No. 13 (With Intro.) [From "Mayan Letters"]
  74. Mayan Letter No. 5 (With Intro.) [From "Mayan Letters"]
  75. First Stevens Song
  76. To Travel Typhon / Up the Steps / People Want Delivery / The
  77. Untitled Maximus Poem / Vida Upanishad Eda Than / Kent Circl
  78. John Watts / 3rd Letter on Georges, Unwritten / The Gulf of
  79. ABC
  80. Contemporaries
  81. Casual Mythology
  82. Maximus from Dogtown 1
  83. A Later Note on Letter #15
  84. Later Tyrian business
  85. Bolan I and II
  86. Reading from Maximus, Poems IV, V, VI, c. 1969, pub. 1975
  87. The Cow of Dogtown
  88. Stage Fort Park
  89. Maximus to Gloucester Letter 27 [withheld]
  90. Wrote my first poems

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