The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after the two poets first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970. Both men initiated a novel stance toward poetry, and they matched each other with huge accomplishments, an enquiring, declarative intelligence, wide-ranging interests in history and occult literature, and the urgent demand to be a poet.
More than a literary correspondence, An Open Map gives insight into an essential period of poetic advancement in cultural history.
| ISBN: | 9780826358967 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2017 |
| Author: | Robert Duncan, Charles Olson |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics |
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Diaries, letters and journals |
The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after the two poets first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970.
An Open Map features in the following genres: Diaries, letters and journals
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An Open Map was written by Robert Duncan, Charles Olson and published by University of New Mexico Press
An Open Map has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics series