CHARLES OLSON

Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, ed. George F. Butterick (Berkeley, Cal., c.1983); see also Butterick's Editing the Maximus Poems; Supplementary Notes (Storrs, Conn., 1983). Butterick (George F.), A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson (Berkeley, Cal., 1978). Charles Olson, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson, Excluding the Maximus Poems, ed. George F. Butterick (Berkeley, Cal., c.1987, reprinted 1997). Charles Olson, In Cold Hell, In Thicket (Origin, 8 [1953]; San Francisco, 1967). Charles Olson, The Distances (Grove Press, New York, c.1960). Charles Olson, Archaeologist of Morning (London, 1970).

Allen (Don) (ed.), The New American Poetry, 1945-60 (New York, 1960; new ed., Berkeley, Cal., c.1999). Charles Olson, Selected Poems, ed. (Berkeley, Cal., c.1993, reprinted, 1997). Charles Olson, Charles Olson, a Charles Olson Reader, ed. Ralph Maud (Manchester, 2005).

Anon. [Charles Olson and Ben Shahn (eds)], Spanish Speaking Americans in the War: The Southwest (Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1943). Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael; A Study of Melville (New York, 1947; re- printed, San Francisco, 1958, London, 1967; ed. Merton M. Sealts, Jr, Baltimore, Md, 1997); see also Ann Charters, Olson/Melville; A Study in Affinity (Berkeley, Cal., 1968). Charles Olson, The Special View of History (1956), ed. Ann Charters (Berkeley, Cal., 1970). Charles Olson, Projective Verse (Totem Press, New York, c.1959), collected in Human Universe (1965) and in Collected Prose (1997); see also Perloff (Marjorie), 'Charles Olson and the "Inferior Predecessors": "Projective Verse" Revisited', ELH, 40 (1973), 285-306; and Hatlen (Burton), 'Pound's Pisan Cantos and the Origins of Projective Verse', in Dennis (Helen), and Poetic Influence (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 146- 50. Charles Olson, A Bibliography on America for (San Francisco, 1964). Charles Olson, Human Universe, and Other Essays, ed. Donald Allen (San Francisco, 1965; New York, 1967). Charles Olson, The Mayan Letters (Palma de Mallorca, 1953; ed. Robert 2 Creeley, London, 1968). Charles Olson, Causal Mythology (San Francisco, 1969). Charles Olson, Poetry and Truth; The Beloit Lectures and Poems, ed. George F. Butterick (San Francisco, 1971).

Charles Olson, Additional Prose, ed. George F. Butterick (Bolinas, Cal., 1974). Charles Olson, Collected Prose, ed. Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander (Berkeley, Cal., c.1997). Charles Olson, Muthologos; The Collected Lectures & Interviews, ed. George F. Butterick (2 vols, Bolinas, Cal., 1978-9).

Charles Olson, Charles Olson & Cid Corman; Complete Correspondence, 1950- 1964, ed.George Evans (2 vols, Orono, Maine, c.1987-91). Charles Olson, Charles Olson & Robert Creeley; The Complete Correspondence, ed. George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins (10 vols, Santa Barbara, Cal., 1980-96). Charles Olson, 'The Correspondences: Charles Olson and Carl Sauer', ed. Bob Calahan, New World Journal (1979), 136-68. Charles Olson, Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff; A Modern Correspon- dence, ed. Ralph Maud and Sharon Thesen (Hanover, N.H., c.1999). Charles Olson, Selected Letters of Charles Olson, ed. Ralph Maud (Berkeley, Cal., c.2000).

Butterick (George F.) and Glover (Albert) (comps), A Bibliography of Works by Charles Olson (New York, 1967). McPheron (William), Charles Olson; The Critical Reception, 1941-1983; A Bibliographic Guide (New York, 1986).

Dawson (Fielding), The Black Mountain Book (New York, 1970; rev. & enl. ed., Rocky Mount, N.C., 1991). Rumaker (Michael), Black Mountain Days (Asheville, N.C., c.2003). Harris (Mary Emma) et al., (eds), Starting at Zero; Black Mountain College, 1933-57 (Bristol, Cambridge, 2005) [exhibition catalogue]. Duncan (Robert), 'Notes on Poetics: Regarding Olson's Maximus', Black Mountain Review, 6 (1956), reprinted in The Poetics of the New American Poetry, ed. Donald Allen and Warren Tallman (New York, c. 1973).

Seelye (Catherine), Charles Olson & Ezra Pound; An Encounter at St. Elizabeths (New York, 1975). 3 Swigart (Lynn), Olson's Gloucester; Photographs by Lynn Swigart (Baton Rouge, La, c.1980). Clark (Tom), Charles Olson; The Allegory of a Poet's Life (New York, 1991; Berkeley, Cal., c.2000). Maud (Ralph), Charles Olson's Reading; A Biography (Carbondale, Ill., c.1996).

Sauer (Carl Ortwin), 'The Morphology of Landscape' (1925), in John Leighly (ed.), Land and Life; A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer (Berkeley, Cal., 1963), pp. 315-50. Whitehead (Alfred North), Process and Reality; An Essay on Cosmology (Cambridge, 1929; corrected ed., New York, 1978).

Cy Twombly: Paintings and Sculptures, 1951 and 1953 (New York, 1989); see also Leeman (Richard), Cy Twombly; A Monograph, trans Mary Whittall (Paris/London, 2005), and Welish (Marjorie), 'The Art of Cy Twombly', in her Signifying Art; Essays on Art after 1969 (Cambridge, 1999). Rosenberg (Harold), The Tradition of the New (c.1960; reprinted, Chicago, 1982). Arensberg (Mary), 'Introduction: The American Sublime', in The American Sublime, ed. M. Arensberg (Albany, N.Y., 1986).

Bernstein (Michael André), 'The Maximus Poems', in his The Tale of the Tribe; Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic (Princeton, c.1980), pp. 227-70. Bové (Paul), Destructive Poetics; Heidegger and Modern American Poetry (New York, 1980). Butterick (George), 'Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers" and the Poetics of Change', American Poetry, 6 (1989), 28-59. Butterick (George F.), Charles Olson and the Development of a New American Poetic, ed. Richard Blevins (Kent, Ohio, 1996). Byrd (Don), Charles Olson's Maximus (Urbana, Ill., c.1980). Christiansen (Paul), Charles Olson; Call him Ishmael (Austin, Tx., c.1979). Creeley (Robert), 'Some Notes on Olson's Maximus' (1962), in The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (Berkeley, Cal., c.1989), pp. 112-17. Creeley (Robert), '"An Image of Man": Working Notes on Charles Olson's Concept of Person', The Iowa Review, 11 (1980), 29-43. Davenport (Guy), 'Scholia and Conjectures for Olson's 'The Kingfishers', Boundary 2, 2 (1973-4), 250-62. 4 Davidson (Michael), Guys Like Us; Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (Chicago, c.2004). Dembo (L.S.), 'Charles Olson and the Moral History of Cape Ann', Criticism, 14 (1972), 165-74. Dembo (L.S.), 'Olson's Maximus and the Way to Knowledge', Boundary 2, 2 (1973-4), 279-89. Dorn (ed), What I See in the Maximus Poems (Ventura, Cal., 1960), reprinted, Kulchur, 4 (1961). Faas (Ekbert), Towards a New American Poetics; Essays & Interviews (Santa Barbara, Cal., 1978). Foster (Edward Halsey), Understanding the Black Mountain Poets (Columbia, S.C., c.1995). Fredman (Stephen), The Grounding of American Poetry; Charles Olson and the Emerson Tradition (Cambridge, 1993). Hallberg (Robert von), Charles Olson; The Scholar's Art (Cambridge, Mass., 1978) [on 'The Kingfishers', pp. 8-21]. Hatlen (Burton), 'Kinesis and Meaning; Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers" and the Critics', Contemporary Literature, 30 (1989), 546-72. Maud (Ralph), What Does Not Change; The Significance of Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers' (Madison, N.J., c.1998). Osborne (John), 'Black Mountain and Projective Verse', in Neil Roberts (ed.), A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (Oxford, 2001), pp. 168-82. Paul (Sherman), Olson's Push; Origin, Black Mountain, and Recent American Poetry (Baton Rouge, La, c.1978). Ross (Andrew), The Failure of Modernism; Symptoms of American Poetry (New York, 1986). Schneidau (Herbert), 'Pound, Olson, & Objective Verse', Paideuma, 5 (1975), 15-29.

J.H. Prynne, April 2006

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