Charles Olson
Charles Olson
Charles Olsonwas a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, 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. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law
what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below
The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.
by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.
Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.
of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct