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
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass
And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.
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.