After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff

Edited by Sharon Thesen and Ralph Maud

Softcover, 293 pages.

Modern American poet Charles Olson had many correspondences over the years, but Frances Boldereff, a book designer and typographer, scholar, and single working mother, embodied a dynamic complexity of interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, critic and amanuensis.

The correspondence taken as a whole presents a passionate relationship realized mostly in letters—letters that were to become essential to Olson’s working out of his poetics. Boldereff’s interventions, which provoked Olson to articulate a projectivist poetics, claims for Frances Boldereff an incalculable effect on twentieth-century poetry

Copyright 2014, Sharon Thesen, Ralph Maud, Charles Olson, the University of Connecticut Libraries, Frances Boldereff, and Lucinda Wilner.