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Imagining Persons

Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson

Robert J Bertholf editor Dale M Smith editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Published:30th Dec '17

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Robert Duncan’s nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson’s influential 1950 essay “Projective Verse.” These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan’s vision of modernist writing.

In these lectures, Duncan explores the meaning and context of Olson's poetry and dynamic presence as poet and innovator, while also providing a broader representation of poetry and thought, ancient and modern, delivered with wit, intelligence, curiosity, and care. Essential reading for anyone interested in . . . the work of two of the most important poets of the postwar period."" - Peter O'Leary, author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness

ISBN: 9780826358912

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 555g

264 pages