Charles Olson at the Harbor

Ralph Maud

ISBN 10: 0889225761 / ISBN 13: 9780889225763

Editore: Talonbooks, 2008

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Riassunto:

Charles Olson was one of the most influential of the “New American Poets” published by Grove Press in the mid-twentieth century.

Synthesizing the experimental avant-garde of Black Mountain College with the uncompromising existentialism of the Beat Generation, the new structuralism of the San Francisco Renaissance, and heralding the postmodern deconstructionism of the LANGUAGE poets, his spirit, mind and intellect are ubiquitous in late twentieth century poetry around the world. He unearthed classical sources and aboriginal, principally Mayan, cultures within the history of European colonialism and insisted that the public value the human imagination as inseparable from the particulars of both the time and place of its origin.

With Charles Olson at the Harbor, Dr. Ralph Maud, a long time Olson scholar, sets the record straight, insisting that Olson was as careful with his genius as any young man could be; that he achieved critical success as a Melville scholar; that his “projective verse” established an undeniable and lasting sea change in poetic thought around the world; and that he eschewed success of the ordinary kind to create a new restorative stance in the polis that can take us into a different future—all reflected in a large body of poetry that the world can no longer ignore.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Ralph Maud, a world-renowned expert on the work of Dylan Thomas, Charles Olson, and the ethnographers of the Pacific Northwest, is professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University.

Charles Olson was a giant of a man in physical stature, critical and intellectual range, and imaginative power. His masterwork The Maximus Poems stands beside Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as one of the two great American long poems of the twentieth century—indeed, it can be seen as a democratic and relativist response to Pound’s fascist and absolutist manifesto. His boundless energy, penetrating curiosity and limitless dedication to his craft made Olson and his work the syncretic center of the evolving discourse of mid-twentieth century poetics in English.

Ralph Maud
Ralph Maud is the author of Charles Olson Reading (1996) and the editor of The Selected Letters of Charles Olson (2000.) He has edited much of Dylan Thomas’s work, including The Notebook Poems 1930–1934 and The Broadcasts, and is co-editor, with Walford Davies, of Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems, 1934–1953 and Under Milk Wood. Maud is also the editor of The Salish People: Volumes I, II, III & IV by pioneer ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout. In addition, he has done extensive work on the translation collaboration between Henry W. Tate and Franz Boas, including the book, Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology.

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Titolo: Charles Olson at the Harbor
Casa editrice: Talonbooks
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: very_good