Charles Olson : the allegory of a poet's life / Tom Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Tom, 1941-2018.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.

Olson, Charles.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, [2000]

Summary:

Charles Olson (1910-1970) was a mass of contradictions -- at once egalitarian and elitist, as desperate for the love of a devoted woman as he was haunted by homosexual urges, a lapsed Catholic who eventually drifted into Islamic mysticism and Sumerian studies. In this provocative biography of a poet both feared and revered, Tom Clark shows how these conflicts troubled Olson's life even as it fueled his art.

Contents:

Robert Creeley's Preface to the Second Edition xvii

1. Trinity (1910-1928) 3

2. Show 'Em (1928-1932) 14

3. To Tell of Ishmael's Father (1932-1936) 22

4. Killer-Place (1936-1939) 34

5. Alive Again in This Burying World (1939-1940) 53

6. A Boho in the Village (1940-1942) 69

7. The Trick of Politics (1942-1944) 76

8. To Begin Again (1945-1946) 90

9. Unresolved "Amours" (1946) 107

10. Arresting the West (1947) 119

11. The Broken Step (1948) 130

12. Domination Square (1948-1949) 141

13. Riot in My Soul (1949-1950) 153

14. The Big Year Shift (1950) 177

15. A Human Universe (1951) 190

16. Lawgiver (1951) 203

17. In the Dark Stall (1952) 215

18. Inland Waters (1952-1953) 228

19. Chinese Monastery or Hill-fort (1953-1956) 238

20. The Last Man (1956-1957) 252

21. Isolato (1957-1960) 267

22. In Tenebris (1960-1963) 284

23. Instructing the Angels (1963-1964) 301

24. Life Solely to Be Lived (1964-1965) 313

25. The Conventual (1966-1967) 327

26. The Subterranean Lake (1967-1970) 338

Notes on Olson, 14 October, 1999 / Edward Dorn 351.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1556433425

9781556433429

OCLC:

43286869

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