SELECTED LETTERS by OLSON, CHARLES - 2000

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Berkeley, CA: University of California. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front hinge cracked.. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0520205804 . xxxix, 493pp. Index, bibliography, chronology. Navy cloth titled in silver on spine. A collection of letters by the American poet (1910-1970) and professor associated with Black Mountain College and other institutions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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California, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG

University of California Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Black cloth, large octavo. xxxiix, 493 pates. Chronology, annotated index. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (2000.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Includes almost 200 letters (out of a known 3000), spanning the years from 1931 when he was a college undergraduate to his death in 1970, and chosen to present a well-rounded picture of Olson. While most of the letters are to other poets, writers and artists - including Ruth Benedict, Malcolm Cowley, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Robert Creeley, Cid Corman, Fielding Dawson, Ben Shahn, Carl Jung, Jonathan Williams, Paul Blackburn, Larry Eigner, Edward Dorn, Anselm Hollo, Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, David Ignatow, Michael McClure, and many others. - the first letter is to his father and there are also such diverse letters as a World War II letter to the Office of Strategic Services. Introduction and annotations throughout by Maud, chronology, bibliography, and index. xxxix, 493 pp.

Univ of California Pr, 2001. Hardback. Fine/Fine.

Berkeley. 2000. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With a Small Tear Mark on the Read Side Edge. 0520205804. Edited by Ralph Maud. 493 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustartion: Olson outside his home in Washington, ca. 1946-1947. Jacket design by Barbara Jellow. keywords: Poetry America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an understanding of his definition of the postmodern, and through the play of mind exhibited here we recognize him as one of the vital thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume, edited and annotated by Ralph Maud, we see Olson at the height of his powers and also at his most human. Nearly 200 letters, selected from a known 3,000, demonstrate… Read More