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This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. In The Olson Codex, Dennis Tedlock describes and examines Olson's efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson's work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

The Olson Codex Projective Verse and the Problem

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      Publisher: MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico
      Publication Date: 6/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826357182, 978-0826357182
      ISBN10: 0826357180

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      Book Synopsis
      This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. In The Olson Codex, Dennis Tedlock describes and examines Olson's efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson's work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

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