Charles Olson
Charles Olson & Robert Creeley
The Complete Correspondence: Volume 10
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Both poets, opening this third year of their correspondence, are discovered in unsettled life-states -- Creeley restlessly moving his young family around isolated Mediterranean villages, Olson drifting indecisively between conflicting roles as mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington, D.C. -- but the intensity and volume of their letters remains a constant, comprising the mutually-proposed foundation in thought and words that secures and locates both men in the midst of the challenging projective openness of their still highly indeterminate creative existences.Freedom is moreover a large underlying theme here, with Olson, privately g…
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Both poets, opening this third year of their correspondence, are discovered in unsettled life-states -- Creeley restlessly moving his young family around isolated Mediterranean villages, Olson drifting indecisively between conflicting roles as mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington, D.C. -- but the intensity and volume of their letters remains a constant, comprising the mutually-proposed foundation in thought and words that secures and locates both men in the midst of the challenging projective openness of their still highly indeterminate creative existences.Freedom is moreover a large underlying theme here, with Olson, privately going through a marital crisis at the time, perhaps signalling something of his closely-guarded inner struggle in characteristically impersonal comments on the tragedy of individual freedom: Fixed fate itself is no single pattern but is the pattern any man imposes, he declares. The limits of his freedom are only the limits of his willingness to acknowledge force... I will not be intimidated by any assumptive pattern, even the most pressing dream, let alone any agent or expression of force outside myself.I think that no one can be open, Creeley writes back to his as-yet-unmet friend from across the wide ocean, unless there is singleness in him. For his part, Creeley's letters here increasingly demonstrate the insistently desperate singularity that informs his early poetry with its special temper and character. The verse indeed now can be seen to mature visibly, a familiar signature of genius emerging before our eyes in the poet's careful glosses of such early pieces as After Lorca, from a letter of June 23, 1952: The other night, manwho works the garden, or most of it, talking about... Lorca who he grew up with... I made a translation of his telling it, he gave it in Spanish, and then in a sort of French -- with real wild movements of his hands... It's a damn wild feel, to get anything like that. Mouth
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Weitere Autoren: Creeley, Robert / Blevins, Richard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57423-004-8
- EAN: 9781574230048
- Produktnummer: 33452045
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Über den Autor
Richard Blevins holds degrees from Kent State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught literature and poetry writing. In addition to his scholarly writing and editing, he has published books of poetry and many essays.Charles Olson was one of the most innovative poets of the 20th century. As a teacher at the Black Mountain College, he was one of the three most influential members of the Black Mountain movement, along with Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley. Creeley and I have since engaged in perhaps the most important correspondence of my life, Olson told a friend in 1950. Creeley, in his turn, found Olson's letters of such energy and calculation that they constituted a practical 'college' of stimulus and information.Robert Creeley was a major American poet, essayist, and editor. He first met Charles Olson at Black Mountain College where, Creeley joked, Olson was referred to as Maximus and he was called Minimus due to their teacher-apprentice relationship. A close friendship followed, documented in the ten-volume collected correspondence. Creely wrote, The letters...were really my education just because their range and articulation took me into terms of writing and many other areas indeed where I otherwise might never have entered.
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