Charles Olson Credit: Archives & Special Collections Dept. University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs. Collected Prose | Collected Poems | Selected Poems The Charles Olson Festival, 1995: The Charles Olson Festival: A Report by Loss Peque o Glazier A Festival a beginning by Chris Funkhouser Essays and Reviews: Charles Olson's Maximus to Gloucester by Karl Young Charles Olson and Projective ...

S H A R O N O L D S The poet talks about breathing, the Pope's penis, and the necessity of getting out of art's way By DWIGHT GARNER Illustration by Charlie Powell Domesticity, death, erotic love -- the stark simplicity of Sharon Olds' subjects, and of her plain-spoken language, can sometimes make her seem like the brooding Earth Mother of American poetry. ( I have learned to get pleasure, Olds ...

Mary Oliver (1935- ) | On Oliver's Poetry | On The Lilies Break Open | Compiled and Prepared by Edward Brunner, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index ...

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Four poems by Beat luminary, Peter Orlovsky.

A selection of the poetry of Mary Oliver including Wild Geese, The Journey, Journey and When Death Comes.

Blood, Tin, Straw The Wellspring The Father The Gold Cell The Dead and the Living Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book ...

A Poem by Mary Oliver By Robert Hass August 23, 1998 Here's something for summer while it's still with us, from the most recent book by a much-admired and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver of Provincetown, Mass.: Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith Every summer I listen and look under the sun's brass and even into the moonlight, but I can't hear anything, I can't see anything ...

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CHARLES OLSON from PROJECTIVE VERSE First, some simplicities that a man learns, if he works in OPEN or what can also be called COMPOSITION BY FIELD, as opposed to inherited line, stanza, over-all form, what is the old base of the non-projective. (1) the kinetics of the thing. A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself ...