• Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such...
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    traditionally described as the "Black Mountain Poets" centered around Charles Olson, who became a teacher at the college in 1948. Robert Creeley, who worked...
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  • families of Dale Olson were both Lutheran. Dale Olson’s adoptive paternal grandfather, Charles Olson, was born in Sweden. Dale Olson’s adoptive maternal...
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  • Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place is a 2007 documentary film about the life of the poet Charles Olson produced and directed by...
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    Fuller, Walter Gropius, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mary Caroline Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Michael...
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    Gloucester. Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place is a one-hour documentary about the poet Charles Olson which the Boston Phoenix called...
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    The Charles and Fae Olson House is a historic house in Gresham, Oregon, United States. Designed and hand-built by the novice owner-occupant as his version...
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    times with Charles X, Charles XI, Charles XII, Charles XIII, Charles XIV and Charles XV. Charles I of England (1600–1649) is followed by Charles II of England...
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    untitled 1947 painting by Corrado Cagli (memorialized in a poem by Charles Olson), and two prints by M. C. Escher: Möbius Band I (1961), depicting three...
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    "Readers and Writers". The New Age. xxviii, 126–127. Olson, Charles (1991) [1975]. Charles Olson & Ezra Pound: An Encounter at St. Elizabeths. Edited...
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    rock-and-roll (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-440678-7. Boer, Charles. Charles Olson in Connecticut. North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1991, (1975)...
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    though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served...
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  • introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945...
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  • attendant Godot (1953), Happy Days (1961), Rockaby (1981). The poets Charles Olson (1910-1970) and J. H. Prynne (1936- ) are, amongst other writing in...
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  • of the College. Prynne's early influences include Donald Davie and Charles Olson. He was one of the key figures in the Cambridge group among the British...
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    and Moby Dick's final dive allows Fedallah to lead Ahab to his death. Charles Olson mentions three modes of madness in King Lear, the King's, the Fool's...
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    'Charles Olson and Sun Ra.' Fourth Annual Charles Olson Memorial Lecture. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA. 19 October 2013." in Letters for Olson, edited...
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    Levertov, Projective verse or "open field" composition as represented by Charles Olson, and also Language Poetry which aimed for extreme minimalism along with...
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    and was considered something of a sinecure. Poet and literary scholar Charles Olson, who served as a Democratic National Committee official during the 1944...
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  • College. He was replaced on the staff by his friend and fellow author, Charles Olson. During his years as an expatriate writer in 1920s Paris, he knew James...
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    right. According to scholar Ian Buchanan, the Black Mountain poets Charles Olson and Robert Creeley first introduced the term "postmodern" in its current...
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  • an annual small magazine of poetry and prose, edited by Charles Olson, Harvey Brown, and Charles Boer [Brover]. The magazine was published by Harvey Brown...
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  • Divine Design with Candice Olson Charles Olson (1910–1970), American modernist poet Dante Pereira-Olson, American actor Evan Olson (born 1967), rock singer...
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    Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) is an American lawyer who served as the 42nd solicitor general of the United States from 2001 until 2004...
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    determined by breath, Emerson's poetry foreshadowed the theories of Charles Olson. The following were named after or in honor of Emerson: Harvard's philosophy...
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  • in contact with and responding to the New American Poets, especially Charles Olson. The English Intelligencer's name is likely to have been influenced...
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    been referred to as the "Postmoderns" (see especially references by Charles Olson and the Grove anthologies edited by Donald Allen). Though this is now...
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  • This included poet and Fugs drummer Ken Weaver and Black Mountain poet Charles Olson,. According to Miles, a spoken word album by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,...
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    high level of development. In his seminal 1950 essay Projective Verse, Charles Olson, the theorist of the Black Mountain poets, wrote "One perception must...
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    Generation such as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders, or Modernist poets like Charles Olson. Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton prompted John Sinclair to...
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