Charles Olson
ISBN: 9780889226395
Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd
Publication Date: 2010
Binding:
Softcover
Synopsis:
Charles Olson once defined "Muthologos" as "what is said about what is said," which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would define the near and far range of where the poet's mind went in a lifetime's intent to go places. In this new compilation of Olson's transcribed lectures and interviews, we finally get all of what is preserved of a life of talk, allowing Muthologos to stand, along with The Maximus Poems, Collected Poems, Collected Prose and Selected Letters as one of the "standard texts" of this great poet's oeuvre.
Ralph Maud's second edition of Muthologos, some thirty years after George Butterick's first, adds several new items: "At Goddard College, April 1962"; a second Vancouver 1963 discussion, "Duende, Muse, and Angel"; a short addition to the "BBC Interview"; a second "On Black Mountain"; a further hour of Olson's conversation with Herb Kenny; and a previously unavailable CBC interview. In addition, all the available tapes of these talks and interviews have been listened to again, and many of their previous transcription errors have been corrected. Textual notes to each piece identify these corrections, and also reveal the provenance of the tapes and the particular way in which each transcription was created.
"Maud depicts [Olson] `functioning remarkably as a public poet, a poet thinking on his feet, and being absolutely delightful."---Pacific Rim Review of Books
"...a balanced and superbly rendered picture of one of America's greatest poets."---Peter Anastas
"Rarely have letters been so crucial in a poet's life and no selection of them has ever made such fact more evident than does Ralph Maud's remarkable edition. The ranging, perceptive, various, and engaging nature of Olson's letters is in itself a wonder. Here Ralph Maud has composed them to make clear a life in all the reach of its encounters, in all the particulars of its company, and in the place determined as its own."---Robert Creeley
"An important book assembled with great intelligence, tact, taste and professionalism"---Donald Allen
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Other editions:
Hardcover - 2001,
Hardcover - 1999,
Softcover - 1999,
Softcover - 1997,
Softcover - 1997,
Softcover - 1997,
Hardcover - 1997,
Softcover - 1997,
1997,
Hardcover - 1996
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