{"product_id":"collected-prose-paperback-4","title":"Collected Prose - 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\u003eDonald Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCollected Prose\u003c\/i\u003e brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between 1946 and 1969, many of which are now out of print. A valuable companion to editions of Olson's poetry, the book backgrounds the poetics, preoccupations, and fascinations that underpin his great poems. Included are \u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishmael\u003c\/i\u003e, a classic of American literary criticism; the influential essays \"Projective Verse\" and \"Human Universe\"; and essays, book reviews, and Olson's notes on his studies. In these pieces one can trace the development of his new science of man, called \"muthologos,\" a radical mix of myth and phenomenology that Olson offered in opposition to the mechanistic discourse and rationalizing policy he associated with America's recent wars in Europe and Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander offer helpful annotations throughout, and poet Robert Creeley, who enjoyed a long and mutually influential relationship with Olson, provides the book's introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Prose\u003c\/i\u003e will introduce a new generation of readers to a central modernist and postmodernist thinker in American letters. For the energy of the avant-garde literary project at midcentury, Olson is it. No one else has the excitement or range.--Robert Hass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At last we have between two covers some of the most compelling theorizing in postmodern poetics and American Studies ever produced, from one of the defining figures in postwar American poetry. This is that rarest of books, a must-read for poets and scholars alike.\"--Alan Golding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Allen\u003c\/b\u003e was a longtime friend, editor, and publisher of Charles Olson. He has also edited \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poetry, 1945-1960, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, \u003c\/i\u003e and the writings of Lew Welch. He is currently CEO of Grey Fox Press in San Francisco. \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poetry and editor of \u003ci\u003eArea Lights Heights: Writings 1954-1989\u003c\/i\u003e by Larry Eigner. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the State University of New York, Buffalo. \u003cb\u003eRobert Creeley\u003c\/b\u003e is Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at the State University of New York, Buffalo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 382\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.94 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 19, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334500008185,"sku":"9780520208735","price":70.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/h-ob0UL4vG9780520208735_fcf886e3-53e1-4e7f-a5af-03a71b6a5ad0.webp?v=1769649076","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/collected-prose-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}