Charles Olson

Poet.
1910 - 1970

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

the soul and the body, and make mock
of any dispersed effort. The hour of
death

is the only trespass

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

... who
can tell another how
to manage the swimming?

he was right: people

don’t change. They only stand more
revealed. I,
likewise

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.” —Charles Olson http://t.co/plztOtudU9

[Molly Hardy @mollyhardy]

Bull fighting scene in Dogtown Commons from Charles Olson's Maximus Poems

[Houghton Library @HoughtonLib]

New "Reel Writing" podcast up! Featuring Charles Olson's audio letters. Also, Gloucester: http://t.co/9xGlobvoLP

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

I have made dialogues,
have discussed ancient texts,
have thrown what light I could, offered
what pleasures
doceat all

[Al Filreis @Afilreis]

RT @lucidauradreams: Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]
By Charles Olson
I come back to the geography of it http://t.co/YXqrvHsjUW

[Tom The Book Guy 📚 @TomTheBookGuy]

Can anyone decipher these words in this inscription from Charles Olson to Jacob Kainen? in the book "Call Me Ishmael"

[Carl Robert Anderson @CarlRobertAnd]

Charles Olson on Frank O'Hara

[Poetry News @poetrynews]

T H E D I S T A N C E S and / or C I T I E S - You can teach the young nothing —Charles Olson, “The Distances” C... http://t.co/kP07u0mJFd

[Chris Waddington @CWaddington504]

Is literature a career? Drink up! http://t.co/dDEkKZyqPM @TWFestNOLA @thomasbeller @Maureen_Gibbon

[trim @not_tron]

CHARLES OLSON YOUR MAXIMUS POEMS ARE 43 DOLLARS DUDE WHAT IS THIS DARK MAGIC

[Chris Waddington @CWaddington504]

Charles Olson: "The word does not intimidate. The pay-check does." (J. Williams, photo) @TWFestNOLA

[Paul Varner @PaulVarner]

Reading list for Charles Olson's grad seminar Berkeley 1965

[Dr. Karis Shearer @how2speakpoetry]

#CharlesOlson after. @JessicaBonney12 & Caitlin V lead #Letterpress demo. #Vanc63 #blackmountaincollege

[Michael Carriger @profmpc]

The wind is howling. Read some Olson.

I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties...

http://t.co/p0nnXMTWdx

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

made to give even the most wretched, or any of us, wretched,
that consolation (greased
lulled
even the street-cars
song

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

invaded, appropriated, outraged, all senses
including the mind, that worker on
And that other sense

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

No eyes or ears left
to do their own doings (all

[Charles Olson @maximus2glstr]

colored pictures
of all things to eat: dirty
postcards
And words, words, words
all over everything