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
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.
Atlantis will rise again.
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
What does not change is the will to change
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
I couldn't write a canto if I sat down and deliberately tried. My interest is not in cantos. It's in another condition of a song.