{"product_id":"contemporary-olson-9781526116789","title":"Contemporary Olson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From \u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishmael\u003c\/i\u003e, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project \u003ci\u003eThe Maximus Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, he provided radical resources for the re-imagining of place and politics, resources for collective thought and creative practice we are still learning how to use. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in \u003ci\u003eContemporary Olson\u003c\/i\u003e provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture. Through a series of contextualising chapters, discussions of individual poems and reflections on Olson’s legacy by leading international writers and critics, the book presents a poet who still informs contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Contemporary Olson – David Herd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection I: Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e1. Myth and document in Charles Olson's Maximus Poems – Miriam Nichols\u003cbr\u003e2. Discoverable unknowns: Olson’s lifelong preoccupation with the sciences – Peter Middleton\u003cbr\u003e3. ‘Empty Air’: Charles Olson’s cosmology – Reitha Pattison\u003cbr\u003e4. A reading of ‘In Cold Hell, In Thicket’ – Ian Brinton and Michael Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection II: Poetics\u003cbr\u003e5. From Olson’s breath to Spicer’s gait: spacing, pacing, phonemes – Daniel Katz\u003cbr\u003e6. Poetic instruction – Michael Kindellan\u003cbr\u003e7. Reading Blackburn reading Olson: Paul Blackburn reads Olson’s ‘Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 15’ – Simon Smith\u003cbr\u003e8. From Weymouth back: Olson’s British contacts, travels and legacy – Gavin Selerie\u003cbr\u003e9. A fresh look at Olson – Elaine Feinstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection III: Gender\u003cbr\u003e10. Olson and his Maximus Poems – Rachel Blau DuPlessis\u003cbr\u003e11. ‘When the attentions change’: Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff – Robert Hampson\u003cbr\u003e12. ‘The pictorial handwriting of his dreams’: Charles Olson, Susan Howe, Redell Olsen – Will Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection IV: History\u003cbr\u003e13. The contemporaries: a reading of Charles Olson’s ‘The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs’ – Stephen Fredman\u003cbr\u003e14. Futtocks – Anthony Mellors\u003cbr\u003e15. Death in life: the past in ‘As the Dead Prey Upon Us’ – Ben Hickman\u003cbr\u003e16. ‘To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe’s Things of Which He Has Written Us in His “Brief an Creeley und Olson’’’: Olson on history, in dialogue – Sarah Posman\u003cbr\u003e17. ‘Moving among my particulars’: the ‘negative dialectics’ of The Maximus Poems  – Tim Woods\u003cbr\u003e18. A note on Charles Olson’s ‘The Kingfishers’ – Charles Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection V: Space\u003cbr\u003e19. Transcultural projectivism in Charles Olson’s ‘The Kingfishers’ and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s Warlugulong – Peter Minter\u003cbr\u003e20. The view from Gloucester: Open Field Poetics and the politics of movement – David Herd\u003cbr\u003e21. Why Olson did ballet: the pedagogical avant-gardism of Massine – Karlien van den Beukel\u003cbr\u003e22. On the back of the elephant: riding with Charles Olson – Iain Sinclair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Charles Olson’s first poem – Ralph Maud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040985678167,"sku":"9781526116789","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526116789.jpg?v=1750948497","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-olson-9781526116789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}