Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition (a paperback original). Light stain on top page ridge.
224 pp. Charles Olson was quite possibly the greatest, and without question the most influential, of the “New American Poets” published by Grove Press in the mid-twentieth century. Synthesizing the experimental avant-garde.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, jacket soiled. Sticker ghost on front paste-down endpaper.
ix, 252 pp. Charles Olson is often described as one of the most influential American poets of the last quarter century; some would rather.....
Bolinas, California: Four Seasons Foundation, 1978. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased, front cover soiled, sticker ghost on rear cover, highlighting and ink underlining.
230 pp. Volume One Contains: On History (1963); Under the Mushroom (1963); Causal Mythology (1965); Reading at Berkeley (1965); Charles Olson and Edward Dorn (1965); Olson in Gloucester.....
San Francisco, California: City Light Books, 1947. Trade Paperback.
General wear.
119 pp. "First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences—especially Shakespearean ones—on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the “theory of the.....
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. Trade Paperback.
Covers rubbed.
40 pp. Famous projectivist theorist and poet's lecture at University of California (Berkeley) Poetry Conference in 1965, with poetical illustrations from the Maximus poems. Discussion recorded also features Bobbie Creeley and Robert Duncan.
. Oyez, 1968. Trade Paperback.
Front cover soiled, cover edges rubbed, ink gift note on front flyleaf.
90 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Introduction; Call Me Ishmael: I - Fort Point and Gloucester; Call Me Ishmael: II - Olson's House and Neighborhood; Essays and Letter for Melville; Postscript: Charles Olson at.....
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970. Trade Paperback.
Covers lightly rubbed, sticker ghost on rear cover.
61 pp. Edited with an introduction by Ann Charters. This series of lectures given by the late poet of Gloucester Massachusetts and rector of Black Mountain College, Charles Olson, in the mid 1950s was published in 1970.....
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Hard Cover.
Stained. Jacket rubbed. Ink underlining.
xv, 244 pp. Charles Olson was an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of twentieth-century poetry in America. This study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work. Paul.....
Urbana / Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed.
xvi, 204 pp. Byrd's is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of the three-volume sequence known as Maximus. This fitful, fragmentary epic revolves around the timeless present of Gloucester, Massachusetts--Olson's home.....
Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with multiple tears.
xxvii, 224 pp. This text explores Charles Olson's visionary poetics and the extensive use he made of the writings of Jung. Offering numerous readings of poems from the “Maximus” series, Stein.....
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A very good copy in a near fine jacket. Small stain on top page ridge.
x, 372 pp. In this narrative account of the life and work of Charles Olson, Ralph Maud focuses on what the.....
London: Collier, 1969. 4th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
4th printing. Faint edge wear.
220 pp. An introduction to English poetry and prose dating from the emergence of Dryden and the early satirists of the Stuart restoration to the rise of the leading forerunners of romanticism, Cowper, Burns, and Blake, in.....
London: Robert Hale, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear.
207 pp. This is the first comprehensive guide to the beautiful and still unspoilt country which provided a constant source of inspiration to one of our greatest and best-loved poets. Throughout his life William Wordsworth maintained a......
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Remainder mark.
xxviii, 603 pp. Stories, poems, articles, and reviews by the American humorist reveal the range of her wit and satire.