{"product_id":"after-completion-the-later-letters-paperback","title":"After Completion: The Later Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Olson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrances Boldereff\u003c\/b\u003e (With), \u003cb\u003eSharon Thesen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Olson had many correspondents over the years, but Frances Boldereﬀ, a book designer and typographer, Joyce scholar, and single working mother, embodied a dynamic complexity of interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, critic, and amanuensis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereﬀ\u003c\/em\u003e follows on from an earlier edition, \u003cem\u003eCharles Olson and Frances Boldereﬀ\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eA Modern Correspondence\u003c\/em\u003e, that spans three years and more than three hundred letters. Published in 1999 by Wesleyan University Press, that edition concludes with a crisis that amounted to a \"completion\" of one of the major phases of their relationship. After September 1950, no longer would Boldereﬀ believe so wholeheartedly in Olson's work - or in his promises to spend time with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Completion\u003c\/em\u003e picks up the correspondence post-crisis, and consists of letters written between 1950 and 1969 - approximately 140 letters over a nineteen-year span. In this period of the correspondence, we witness the intensity of the letters ﬂare intermittently, sometimes explosively, as Olson and Boldereﬀ try to maintain some continuity in their separateness. In these later letters, we also experience their magniﬁcent mutual embracing of Arthur Rimbaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence taken as a whole presents a passionate relationship realized mostly in letters - letters that were to become essential to Olson's working out of his poetics. Boldereﬀ's interventions, which provoked Olson to articulate a projectivist poetics, claims for Frances Boldereﬀ an incalculable eﬀect on twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1910, \u003cstrong\u003eCharles Olson's\u003c\/strong\u003e first two books, \u003cem\u003eCall Me Ishmael\u003c\/em\u003e (1947), a study of Melville's \u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Mayan Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico, cover a range of subjects--mythology, anthropology, language, and cultural history--and use the fervent informal style that were to distinguish all his discursive prose. Olson's manifesto, \u003cem\u003eProjective Verse\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1950, was quoted generously in William Carlos Williams' \u003cem\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/em\u003e (1951). Olson was rector of Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1951-1956, and taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo, 1963-1965. Settling in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he devoted most of his time and energy until his death in 1970 to \u003cem\u003eThe Maximus Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, his most substantial work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEducated at the University of Michigan, \u003cstrong\u003eFrances Boldereff\u003c\/strong\u003e (1905-2003) was a James Joyce scholar, typographer and book designer, and single mother who raised her daughter in Brooklyn, New York, while working in the male-dominated publishing industry of the 1940s and 1950s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSharon Thesen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, editor, and writer who was based in Vancouver, BC, before joining the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, in 2005. She is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent \u003cem\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/em\u003e (Anansi). Her books include a selected poems, \u003cem\u003eNews \u0026amp; Smoke\u003c\/em\u003e (Talonbooks), \u003cem\u003eAurora\u003c\/em\u003e (Talonbooks) and several titles from the 1980s and 1990s from Coach House Press. She has been involved in the Canadian and Vancouver poetry scene for many years.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRalph Maud\u003c\/strong\u003e (1928-2014) was the author of a number of books on Charles Olsen as well as the editor of a number of books on Dylan Thomas. He was also a noted ethnographer and editor of ethnographic books. Maud was a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47194131661049,"sku":"9780889227064","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ySCtKE_Zm99780889227064.webp?v=1767916651","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/after-completion-the-later-letters-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}