Charles Olson
Charles Olson
Charles Olsonwas a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the language school, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.
bees dig the plum blossoms