Selected Letters

By: Charles Olson, Ralph Maud (Editor)

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Hardcover | 21 February 2001 | Edition Number 1

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For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including "Projective Verse" and the "Maximus Poems, " were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an understanding of his definition of the postmodern, and through the play of mind exhibited here we recognize him as one of the vital thinkers of the twentieth century.
In this volume, edited and annotated by Ralph Maud, we see Olson at the height of his powers and also at his most human. Nearly 200 letters, selected from a known 3,000, demonstrate the wide range of Olson's interests and the depth of his concern for the future. Maud includes letters to friends and loved ones, job and grant applications, letters of recommendation, and Black Mountain College business letters, as well as correspondence illuminating Olson's poetics. As we read through the letters, which span the years from 1931, when Olson was an undergraduate, to his death in 1970, a fascinating portrait of this complex poet and thinker emerges.

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"With "Selected Letters, Maud continues the superb work he has already done on Olson in two critical works and as coeditor of the Olson/Boldereff correspondence."--"Artforum

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Introduction	p. xv
Library Sources for the Charles Olson Letters in This Volume	p. xxiii
A Chronology of Charles Olson's Life and Correspondence	p. xxvii

To Charles Joseph Olson (1931)	p. 3
To the Rhodes Scholarship Committee (1931)	p. 5
To Wilbert Snow (1932)	p. 9
To John Finch (1935)	p. 12
To Barbara Denny (1936)	p. 13
To Anne Bosshard (1936)	p. 16

To Dorothy Norman (1938-1939)	p. 21
To F. O. Matthiessen (1939)	p. 24
To Carl Van Doren and Van Wyck Brooks (1940)	p. 27
To Waldo Frank (1940)	p. 29
To Constance Wilcock (1941)	p. 30
To Homer and Viola Barrett (1941)	p. 34
To the Office of Strategic Services (1942)	p. 36

To Alfred Stieglitz (1945)	p. 41
To Malcolm Cowley (1945)	p. 41
To Oscar Lange (1945)	p. 42
To William H. Tripp (1945)	p. 44
To Winfred Overholser and Mary Rudge (1946)	p. 47
To Robert Hannegan (1946)	p. 49
To Ezra Pound (1946)	p. 53
To Adam Kulikowski (1946)	p. 55
To Ruth Benedict (1946)	p. 57
To John Berryman (1947)	p. 60
To Harvey Breit (1947)	p. 63
To Eleanor and Harry Metcalf (1947)	p. 64
To Douglas Fox (1947)	p. 65
To Edward Dahlberg (1947)	p. 67
To Monroe Engel (1947)	p. 68
To Muriel Rukeyser (1947)	p. 71
To the Guggenheim Foundation (1948)	p. 72
To Ezra Pound (1948)	p. 75

To the Western Playing Card Company (1948)	p. 81
To Edward Dahlberg and Caresse Crosby (1948)	p. 83
To Henry Murray (1948)	p. 87
To Josef Albers (1948)	p. 90
To Caresse Crosby and Robert Payne (1949)	p. 92
To Kitue Kitasono (1949)	p. 95
To Albert Erskine (1949)	p. 96
To Ben Shahn (1949)	p. 97
To Michael Lekakis (1949)	p. 99
To Ray B. West (1950)	p. 102
To Vincent Ferrini (1950)	p. 105
To Robert Creeley (1950)	p. 109
To Jay Leyda (1950)	p. 112
To Robert Giroux (1950)	p. 116
To Frances Boldereff (1950)	p. 118
To Carl O. Sauer (1950)	p. 119
To Cid Corman (1950)	p. 121
To Rainer Gerhardt (1951)	p. 124

To Robert Wauchope (1951)	p. 131
To Fielding Dawson (1951)	p. 132
To Stuart Z. Perkoff (1951)	p. 134
To Ben Shahn and W. H. Ferry (1951)	p. 136
To the Fulbright Committee (1951)	p. 145
To Henry Murray (1951-1952)	p. 147
To Frank Moore (1952)	p. 158
To Merton Sealts (1952)	p. 160
To Merce Cunningham (1952)	p. 173
To Connie Olson (1952)	p. 174
To Carl Jung (1952)	p. 180
To Edgar Anderson (1953)	p. 183
To Worcester Classical High School (1953)	p. 184
To Jonathan Williams (1953)	p. 186
To Paul Blackburn (1953)	p. 190
To Bernard Kneiger (1953)	p. 194
To Ronald Mason (1953)	p. 197
To Frederick Merk (1953)	p. 202
To Robert Duncan (1953)	p. 206

To Irving Layton (1954)	p. 217
To the Department of Public Instruction (1954)	p. 220
To Gerald van de Wiele (1954)	p. 223
To William Carlos Williams (1954)	p. 224
To Vincent Ferrini (1954)	p. 229
To Raymond Souster (1955)	p. 233
To Larry Eigner (1956)	p. 236
To Edward Marshall (1956)	p. 237
To Ruth Witt-Diamant (1957)	p. 239
To Robin Blaser (1957)	p. 241
To Michael Rumaker (1957)	p. 246

To Vincent Ferrini (1957)	p. 251
To Betty Olson (1957)	p. 252
To Philip Whalen (1957)	p. 254
To Allen Ginsberg (1958)	p. 258
To Gael Turnbull (1958)	p. 261
To Elaine Feinstein (1959)	p. 264
To John Wieners (1959)	p. 266
To David Ignatow (1960)	p. 267
To Michael McClure (1960)	p. 271
To Gordon Cairnie (1960)	p. 272
To Donald Allen (1960)	p. 273
To Kenneth McRobbie (1960)	p. 277
To Anselm Hollo (1960)	p. 280
To Gilbert Sorrentino (1961)	p. 281
To Alfred Mansfield Brooks (1961)	p. 282
To Harry Levin (1962)	p. 283
To Hank Chapin (1962)	p. 285
To Florene Williams (1963)	p. 286
To George Bowering (1963)	p. 289
To Wesley Huss (1963)	p. 292

To Robert Kelly (1963)	p. 297
To Timothy Leary (1963)	p. 298
To Eric Havelock (1963)	p. 299
To Ralph Maud (1963)	p. 300
To LeRoi Jones (1964)	p. 304
To Mac Hammond (1964)	p. 307
To Edward Van Aelstyn (1964)	p. 308

To Robert Creeley and Vincent Ferrini (1964)	p. 313
To Richard Sassoon (1964)	p. 315
To Suzie Cardone (1964)	p. 316
To Harvey Brown (1964)	p. 317
To Harry Martin (1965)	p. 319
To Edward Dorn (1965)	p. 321
To Mary Shore and Vincent Ferrini (1965)	p. 325
To Suzanne Mowat (1965)	p. 326
To Albert Glover (1965)	p. 331
To John Clarke (1965)	p. 332
To Ralph Maud (1965)	p. 335
To Andrew Crozier (1965)	p. 336
To Albert Cook (1965)	p. 337
To the Gloucester Daily Times (1965)	p. 341
To Betty Smith (1965)	p. 344
To Henry Rago (1966)	p. 347
To Bruce Loder (1966)	p. 349
To Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1966)	p. 350
To John L. Sweeney (1966)	p. 351
To Albert Glover (1966)	p. 353
To Robert Hogg (1966)	p. 357
To Frank Davey (1966)	p. 359
To Ed Sanders (1966)	p. 360
To Jeremy Prynne (1966)	p. 361
To Edward Dorn (1966)	p. 362
To Tom Raworth (1966)	p. 364
To Constance Bunker (1966)	p. 366
To Joyce Benson (1966)	p. 368
To Walter Lowenfels (1966)	p. 372
To Bill Berkson (1966)	p. 373
To Pamela Millward (1966)	p. 374
To Alan and Diane Marlowe (1966)	p. 375
To Zoe Brown (1966)	p. 376
To George Starbuck (1966)	p. 377

To Kate Olson and Harvey Brown (1966)	p. 381
To T. L. Kryss (1966)	p. 383
To Robert Creeley (1966)	p. 384
To Mary Shore (1967)	p. 386
To Chad Walsh (1967)	p. 387
To Harvey Brown (1967)	p. 389
To Donald Sutherland (1967-1968)	p. 390
To Martin Duberman (1967)	p. 393
To Robert Duncan (1968)	p. 396
To Joel Oppenheimer (1968)	p. 398
To the Gloucester Daily Times (1968)	p. 400
To George Butterick (1968)	p. 402
To Thorpe Feidt (1968)	p. 403
To Barry Hall (1968)	p. 404
To Gordon Cairnie (1968)	p. 407
To Joseph Garland (1968)	p. 408
To Donald Allen (1968)	p. 410

To Robert Creeley (1969)	p. 415
To Anna Shaughnessy (1969)	p. 415
To Barry Miles (1969)	p. 419
To Kate Olson (1969)	p. 420
To Frances Boldereff (1969)	p. 421
To John and Mary Clarke (1969)	p. 422
To James Laughlin (1969)	p. 423
To Vincent Ferrini (1969)	p. 425
To Donald Allen (1969)	p. 425
To Joyce Benson (1969)	p. 426
To Wilbert Snow (1969)	p. 427
To Peter Anastas (1969)	p. 428
To Harvey Brown (1969)	p. 429
To Inga Loven (1969)	p. 430
To Nimai Chatterji (1969)	p. 431
Bibliography	p. 433
Annotated Index	p. 449
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