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	A Charles Olson Reader
		Charles Olson (1910-70) believed that poetry exists in an ‘open field’ through which the poet transmits energy to the receptive reader.
		Olson’s influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense.
		Olson grew up and returned to live in the seafaring town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and it was from the life and language of its citizens that his poetry drew its strengths.
	www.charlesolson.ca /files/CharlesOlsonReader.html (225 words)

	Charles Olson's Life and Career
		Olson, Charles John (27 Dec. 1910-10 Jan. 1970), poet and essayist, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Karl Joseph Olson, a postman, and Mary Hines.
		Olson brought wide learning in the sciences and history to the writing of poetry; he challenged old assumptions about form and lyric content and widened the boundaries of verse discourse to include mythology, psychohistory, geography, comparative culture, and the methodical analysis of social events gleaned from his years at Harvard.
		Olson's papers are housed in two major depositories, the Olson Archive of the University of Connecticut and the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/olson/life.htm (3106 words)

	Charles Olson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olson was born and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts and studied at Wesleyan University and Harvard.
		Olson's first book was Call Me Ishmael (1947), a study of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick which was based on his unsubmitted Harvard Ph.D. thesis.
		Olson served as rector of the Black Mountain College from 1951 to 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Olson (427 words)

	Worcester Area Writers - Charles Olson - Bio
		Olson’s hard feelings against Worcester had started with his father, who worked very hard as a postal worker, and his efforts were not always well rewarded.
		Charles was twenty-five and already had his Master’s Degree in English from Wesleyan University, having written as his thesis “The Growth of Herman Melville, Prose Writer and Poetic Thinker.” School had seemed to come easy to Charles; he was an honor student at Classical High School, captain of the debate team and class president.
		Olson claimed "A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Library/Archives/WAuthors/olson/bio.html (1750 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Charles Olson
		Charles Olson, the son of Karl Joseph Olson, a postman, and Mary Hines, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1910.
		Olson's ideas of verse had a profound influence on a whole generation of poets, including writers such as Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, and Robert Duncan.
		Olson served as a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1963-1965) and at the University of Connecticut (1969).
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/739 (536 words)

	Charles Olson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American[For more, click on this link] modernist modernist poetry quick summary:
		Olson was born and grew up in Worcester, EHandler: no quick summary.
		From the time of its founding by john rice in 1933, fl mountain college, located near asheville, north carolina, was known as one of the leading progressive...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_olson.htm (1461 words)

	Charles Olson (1910-1970)
		The teacher might suggest that the formalist concept of a "speaker" or "protagonist" (a character in a poetic drama outside of which the poem's maker is imagined to stand) might be replaced by the poet himself in the act of writing (a self-reflexive Charles Olson in the drama of making this poem).
		Olson characteristically works with syntax and conceptual reference that are "in process"--often fragmentary, self-revising, incremental--as he struggles to "say" what is adequate to his present (and always changing) moment.
		Those interested in Olson as a teacher and as a collaborator with other poets and artists should consult Letters for Origin and Mayan Letters, and also Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community (1972), which is richly informative.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/olson.html (987 words)

	Karl Young on Charles Olson's "Maximus to Gloucester"
		Olson was trying to preserve something in Gloucester as a living entity, and engaged in other activities to back up the letters.
		It's impossible to know Olson's motives, but it seems likely that he was not afraid that anyone would prove his claims false, but that his basic honesty prevented him from allowing the letter to be published once sobriety had overtaken him.
		Traditional Gloucester, the Gloucester that was important to Olson, is basically a town of fishermen, sailors, on-shore maritime workers, and their families, people who are not unfamiliar with fights of every magnitude and description, stubbornness, egotism, personal quirks, people with moods, people with habits, people with eccentric friends.
	www.thing.net /~grist/l&d/le-ky-co.htm (1646 words)

	Charles Olson's Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Olson, while always a centre of contention and controversy, remains one of the most important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century.
		Olson's attack on the Eliotic tradition was not an attack on learning, as is so often the case, but on Eliot's backward-looking poetics and the way in which that stifled poetic invention and strangled poetry's prophetic possibilities in an elegant, lingering whine.
		Olson himself proposed that the way into a writer's work was through the triangulation of his/her life, reading, and writing.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/671/reading125.html (415 words)

	Charles Olson Biography / Biography of Charles Olson Biography
		Charles Olson (1910-1970) defined and practiced an open, kinetic poetry which influenced many of the second generation of modern poets.
		Charles Olson, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1910, was an energetic giant of a man. In his youth his energy took the form of conspicuous academic success.
		In the 1940s Olson moved away from a traditional academic career, through a disillusioning flirtation with politics, to his lifelong work as a poet.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-olson (243 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureCharles Olson - Author Page
		As poet, essayist, letter-writer, and teacher, Charles Olson was a seminal figure in the generation after Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.
		Olson’s poetry is often elliptical and allusive, with a range that can include Sumerian myth, Heraclitus, Hesiod, the linguist B. Whorf, the cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, the psychologist C. Jung, and the details of both ancient and modern history.
		These traits are in accord with Olson’s understanding of art as “enactment.” His constantly twisting utterance seeks not to describe but to enact the movements of a speaker who is himself in “process” as he grapples with the matter in hand.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/olson_ch.html (958 words)

	Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley - Preface to 'Charles Olson...', by Tom Clark
		Olson’s and my time was one still resonant with 19th century hopes, that we might have ‘better living through chemistry,’ for example, or that ‘self-improvement’ was something quite possible, given hard work and a viable dream.
		Olson’s need was to so think the given world that it might again be initial, a fact of its physical event, of lives thus admitted and recognized.
		Charles spoke of him as having an ‘Elizabethan ear’ years ago and marveled at his grace.
	jacketmagazine.com /12/olson-p-cree.html (1556 words)

	Charles Olson Research Collection
		Charles Olson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1910, to Karl Joseph and Mary Hines Olson.
		Charles Olson received several prestigious awards during his long career, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1939 and 1948; a Wenner-Gren Foundation grant in 1952; a Longview Foundation award for The Maximus Poems in 1961; and an Oscar Blumenthal Prize (Poetry magazine), 1965.
		The Charles Olson Papers were purchased by the University of Connecticut from the Estate of Charles Olson in 1972.
	www.lib.uconn.edu /online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Olson_C/MSS19690001.html#d0e199 (2283 words)

	OlsonNow
		It is not a film that was made for the specialists of the Charles Olson Society (which, let’s hope, doesn’t turn into the kind of beast Olson excoriated in the Melville Society).
		The effect is to present Olson as a deeply human, approachable character, appealing in his commonness, his commitment, his concern, and his language.
		Ferrini’s portrait of Olson moves persuasively between theses various dimensions, linking together the magic of poetry, the ornery immediacy of Olson’s politics, and the world which is the daily experience of ordinary people.
	olsonnow.blogspot.com (1457 words)

	Charles Olson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in a neighborhood called "Dogtown," Charles Olson was, as he put it, "uneducated" at Wesleyan, Yale, and Harvard, where he received an advanced degree in American civilization.
		As first a teacher, then a rector at Black Mountain College, Olson was a leading influence for poets such as Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley, with whom he enjoyed a substantial correspondence.
		Charles Olson page at the Electronic Poetry Center, includes links to the Olson Archives, essays about the author and reviews of his work, selected poems and prose, and reports on the 1995 Charles Olson Festival.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naal5/explore/olson.htm (618 words)

	Dustin Kidd
		Olson suggests that the poet is a medium who channels energy from the source of the poetry, through the poem itself, and into the reader.
		Olson’s source for "Thomas Granger" is William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, which gives an account of the trial of Thomas Granger; charged of, convicted of and executed for committing indecent sexual acts with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves, and a turkey (Merrill 132).
		Olson’s words in line 14, "Rest, Tom, in your pit where they put you," offers some sympathy for the criminal which is not seen in Bradford’s account.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA99/kidd/resume/olson.html (1045 words)

	Henry Ferrini-Polis Is This (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An immigrant son of Swedish and Irish decent, Charles Olson came to Gloucester, Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
		Olson saw a shadow descending, the small and beautiful fishing village being crushed by greed.
		Polis is This investigates the seminal avant-garde poet, Charles Olson, in conjunction with his enduring connection to his place and origin of inspiration, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
	ferriniproductions.com /poetandthecity (560 words)

	University Museum and Kipp Gallery at IUP - Insight - Charles Olson - Winter/Spring 2001
		Olson is sitting in H.B. Culpepper’s, a restaurant and bar on the main drag of Philadelphia Street in Indiana, Pa. Immediately, he admits that some might find irony in the suggestion that there are opportunities to be had in a small town in western Pennsylvania.
		Olson received both his bachelor’s in art education and his master’s in painting from IUP and will receive the university’s “Distinguished Alumni” award this March.
		Olson’s current work, which will be exhibited in Kipp Gallery March 1 through 24, is more sculptural and more influenced by textures.
	www.arts.iup.edu /museum/olson.html (608 words)

	Charles H. Olson - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Charles H. Olson, cashier of the La Harpe State Bank, is a native of Iowa, born at Keokuk, January 9, 1872.
		Olson was married January 5, 1910, to Miss Florence Roe, daughter of William and Elizabeth (McBride) Roe, natives of Pennsylvania, where the father is engaged in the oil business, and where the family now resides.
		Olson has had an extensive experience in the banking business and is well qualified for the responsible position which he holds, and by his straight forward methods has won the confidence of the business public.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/kansas/genweb/archives/1912/o3/olson_charles_h.html (556 words)

	Polis is This Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Polis is This: The Life and Art of Charles Olson, a new film by award-winning local filmmaker Henry Ferrini, seeks to shed light on Olson’s work in a way that places the town’s literary tradition next to its proud fishing tradition.
		Olson's work was based on his understanding of Gloucester as the perfect reflection of the Greek ideal of a city-state (Polis), just over 30,000 people shaped by their own geography and pulled by their own powerful sense of history.
		Olson lived in Gloucester until his death in 1970, and is considered by many to be one of the most important literary figures of the last century.
	www.ferriniproductions.com /poetandthecity/pressrelease.html (789 words)

	Cleary Gottlieb \| Nos avocats \| Charles E. Olson
		Charles Olson is an associate based in the Paris Office.
		Olson’s practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration. He also works on corporate and financial transactions.
		Olson is proficient in French and speaks fair Spanish.
	www.cgsh.com /french/lawyers/bio.aspx?id=7977 (53 words)

	Charles Olson by Michael Boughn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whatever else such a community may be, in Olson's practice it was a 'place' where hierarchical/anti-hierarchical orderings were dissolved in a synergistic circulation of authoritative finitudes that egged each other on towards their further possibilities - which were the further possibilities of the self-revelation of community as well.
		For Olson, one of the most important places this energetic interaction arose was in correspondence, so that correspondence became for him the centre and fundament of his work.
		One of the marvellous revelations of Olson's correspondence with Bolderoff (edited several years ago by Maud and the poet Sharon Thesen) was that the Maximus poems were born in the letters exchanged between the two.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/711/olson121.html (752 words)

	Boston Review \| John Palattella reviews Charles Olson's Collected Prose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Olson was the first American poet to label himself "postmodern." By this he meant not simply that he succeeded modernists like T. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.
		Similarly, their decision to arrange Olson's essays topically instead of chronologically signals their determination to emphasize not the definitive evolution of his mind but rather the recurring preoccupations of his thought.
		Above the volume's title is a small photo of Olson seated at a kitchen table: His posture is relaxed, as though unburdened of a heroic mantle; his lips are parted, as though in mid-sentence; and his eyes are turned toward the camera, as though gently inviting a response.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR23.1/Palattella.html (989 words)

	Charles Olson Poems & Poetry Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence (Charles Olson and Robert Creeley)
		Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence
		Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence Volume 4 (Charles Olson and Robert Creeley)
	www.classic-literature.co.uk /poetry/Books/browse-70509--1.html (140 words)

	PAL: Charles Olson (1910-1970)
		Charles Olson and Ezra Pound: an encounter at St. Elizabeths.
		Charles Olson: the allegory of a poet's life.
		Merrill, Thomas F. The Poetry of Charles Olson: A Primer.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/olson.html (416 words)

	Charles Olson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the winter of 1944-1945, in his mid-thirties, Charles Olson rejected a promising political career in the Roosevelt administration and turned to writing prose and poetry.
		Olson worte his best early poetry at Black Mountain, including "In Cold Hell, in Thicket" and "The Kingfishers," as well as his manifest "Projective Verse," published in Poetry New York in 1950.
		From 1951 until its closing in 1956, Olson served as rector of Black Mountain College, inviting poets such as Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan to teach.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/olson.htm (209 words)

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