Douglas Clark says:
>I suppose I should complete my look at this thread by saying something
>about OLson. I have always found his idea of 'Gloucester' quite
>inspirational but have never seen him as a poet in putting it into
>practice. Over the years I have been lead to question whether he
>was a poet at all but Fred Beake assures me that hidden away in his
>work are genuine poems. THese may be later, but I am not sure.
>I never could afford Maximus. I have only Selections.
Ah, Douglas: I'd insist that there are many great poems in the Olson
oeuvre, beginning with 'The Kingfishers' & including oh so many others (I
can still remember my first reading of 'The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs').
But the large collections from UcP are expensive. I was so proud of my copy
of _The Archeologist of Morning_ for years, though . . .
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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Listen. If I have known beauty
let's say I came to it
asking
Phyllis Webb
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