Charles Olson: Letters Home 1949-1969

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Edited by David Rich

This book, published in Olson’s centennial year, is a study in letters of Charles Olson and a sampling of ten people in Gloucester who were part of his circle: artists, writers, a publisher, a museum president, an inventor and an architect. Editor David Rich has taken the unusual step of arranging each chapter by correspondent and presenting both sides of each exchange when possible: the result is a group portrait, with Olson at the center of a vibrant literary and artistic scene.

Included are letters to and from:

  • Alfred Mansfield Brooks
  • Vincent Ferrini
  • Helen Stein
  • Mary Shore
  • Jonathan Bayliss
  • John Hays Hammond Jr.
  • Philip S. Weld
  • Peter Anastas
  • Joseph E. Garland
  • Donald Monell

Excerpt:

"My dear Vincent:

I have just sent of a long poem to yr friend Magner of GLASS HILL, and I wanted to thank you for that generous letter he sent to you & which you forwarded to me. I waited until I had something hot for him. This, that I sent, I think is. Tho it is not, and this is getting to be increasingly a problem, eliotic. (I have done a declaration, called PROJECTIVE VERSE vs the NON-projective which I should like your comment on. Look: I have only the carbon"Poetry NY" has the original. But why don't I shoot it to you, for discussion. Do return it as soon as you've eaten its egg.)

Love to you and Peg, and warmest regards to Even yrs Olson" (Rich 31)

Softcover, 150 pages, 6 x 0.5 x 8.75". Black & White Photographs.

Copyright 2010 David Rich with Cape Ann Museum.