{"product_id":"charles-olson-at-the-harbor-paperback","title":"Charles Olson at the Harbor - 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\u003eRalph Maud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSynthesizing the experimental avant-garde of Black Mountain College with the uncompromising existentialism of the Beat generation, the new structuralism of the San Francisco Renaissance and heralding the postmodern deconstructionism of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, his spirit, mind and intellect are ubiquitous in late-twentieth-century poetry around the world. His archaeology of language unearthed classical sources and aboriginal, principally Mayan, cultures within the history of European colonialism and resulted in an absolute insistence that the public value of the human imagination is inseparable from the particulars of both the time and place of its origins and composition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis reputation tarnished and his poetry misread 20 years after his death in Tom Clark's carelessly biased 1991 biography, \u003ci\u003eCharles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Olson and his work have been diminished in the study of poetics since Clark's creation of his grotesque caricature of this great American poet as a young hustler who he irresponsibly and falsely claims became a defeated and pathetic old man in his later years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eCharles Olson at the Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Ralph Maud, a longtime Olson scholar, friend and correspondent, finally sets the record straight, insisting that Olson was as careful with his genius as any young man could be; that he achieved critical success as a Melville scholar; that his \"projective verse\" established an undeniable and lasting sea change in poetic thought around the world; and that he eschewed success of the ordinary kind to create a new restorative stance in the polis that can take us into a different future--all reflected in a large body of poetry that the world can no longer ignore.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Maud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph Maud is the author of \u003ci\u003eCharles Olson Reading\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Letters of Charles Olson\u003c\/i\u003e (2000.) He has edited much of Dylan Thomas's work, including \u003ci\u003eThe Notebook Poems 1930-1934\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Broadcasts\u003c\/i\u003e, and is co-editor, with Walford Davies, of \u003ci\u003eDylan Thomas: The Collected Poems, 1934-1953\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnder Milk Wood\u003c\/i\u003e. Maud is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Salish People: Volumes I, II, III \u0026amp; IV\u003c\/i\u003e by pioneer ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout. In addition, he has done extensive work on the translation collaboration between Henry W. Tate and Franz Boas, including the book, \u003ci\u003eTransmission Difficulties: Franz Boas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTsimshian Mythology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6.3 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 August 19, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47187727646969,"sku":"9780889225763","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/o6p8RsTyHN9780889225763.webp?v=1767859189","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/charles-olson-at-the-harbor-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}