Poems for consideration
"Pacific Lament"
"I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You"
Olson on the Web
poems
I don't find any of Olson's poem texts on the Web; if you do, let me know so I can link to them. Copyright lawyers are earning their keep on this poet.
articles
- Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life Introduction by Robert Creeley
reading
poems at University of Pennsylvania
"I,
Maximus, of Gloucester, to You"
"Songs
of Maximus, Letter 1"
"Letter
7"
"Letter
10"
"Letter
14"
"Letter
15"
"The
Twist"
"Second
Century Song"
"Anecdotes
of Late War"
"The
Love of Anat"
"O'Ryan
Poems"
This and other book jackets
can be found at: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olson/books.htm
Selected Poetic Works
works in blue
are available from the campus library
Call Me Ishmael
(prose) City Lights 1947In Cold Hell, in Thicket 1953
The Distances 1960
The Maximus Poems 1960
The Maximus Poems IV, V, VI 1968
The Maximus Poems, Volume 3 1975
The Maximus Poems U of California P 1983
The Collected Poems of Charles Olson 1987
Selected Poems U of California P 1993
Collected Poems of Charles Olson Excluding the Maximus Poems U of California P 1997