Contemporary Olson

Introduction: Contemporary Olson - David Herd Section I: Knowledge 1. Myth and document in Charles Olson's Maximus Poems - Miriam Nichols 2. Discoverable unknowns: Olson's lifelong preoccupation with the sciences - Peter Middleton 3. 'Empty Air': Charles Olson's cosmology - Reitha Pattison 4. A reading of 'In Cold Hell, In Thicket' - Ian Brinton and Michael Grant Section II: Poetics 5. From Olson's breath to Spicer's gait: spacing, pacing, phonemes - Daniel Katz 6. Poetic instruction - Michael Kindellan 7. Reading Blackburn reading Olson: Paul Blackburn reads Olson's 'Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 15' - Simon Smith 8. From Weymouth back: Olson's British contacts, travels and legacy - Gavin Selerie 9. A fresh look at Olson - Elaine Feinstein Section III: Gender 10. Olson and his Maximus Poems - Rachel Blau DuPlessis 11. 'When the attentions change': Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff - Robert Hampson 12. 'The pictorial handwriting of his dreams': Charles Olson, Susan Howe, Redell Olsen - Will Montgomery Section IV: History 13. The contemporaries: a reading of Charles Olson's 'The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs' - Stephen Fredman 14. Futtocks - Anthony Mellors 15. Death in life: the past in 'As the Dead Prey Upon Us' - Ben Hickman 16. 'To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe's Things of Which He Has Written Us in His "Brief an Creeley und Olson": Olson on history, in dialogue - Sarah Posman 17. 'Moving among my particulars': the 'negative dialectics' of The Maximus Poems - Tim Woods 18. A note on Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers' - Charles Bernstein Section V: Space 19. Transcultural projectivism in Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers' and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's Warlugulong - Peter Minter 20. The view from Gloucester: Open Field Poetics and the politics of movement - David Herd 21. Why Olson did ballet: the pedagogical avant-gardism of Massine - Karlien van den Beukel 22. On the back of the elephant: riding with Charles Olson - Iain Sinclair Epilogue: Charles Olson's first poem - Ralph Maud Bibliography Index