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4 unusual facts about Charles Olson


Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

He translated the work of Lyn Hejinian, John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Michael Palmer, Eliot Weinberger, Barrett Watten and others in Russian, and served as co-editor for The Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry in Russian Translation, as well as for The Anthology of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry.

Hilda Morley

The influence on the open construction of the poetry of Hilda Morley was not Charles Olson, but Wong May.

At Black Mountain, Wolpe and Morley became close friends with John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Dorothea Rockburne and Robert Rauschenberg, in addition to poets Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.

Worcester, Massachusetts Firsts

Charles Olson, a poet and Worcester native, coined the term "postmodern" in his 1958 essay "The Present is Prologue".


Kyle Schlesinger

Cuneiform has published over 40 books to date, including titles by Bill Berkson, Johanna Drucker, Alan Loney, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.

Robert Bertholf

Bertholf has written innumerable articles and books about American poets and poetry, including Wallace Stevens, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, and other Black Mountain poets like Oppenheimer, Creeley and Dorn.


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Nathaniel Tarn

From 1967-9, he joined Cape as General Editor of the international series Cape Editions and as a Founding Director of the Cape-Goliard Press, specializing in contemporary American Poetry with emphasis on Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky and their peers and successors.