Charles Olson and American Modernism: The Practice of the Self

by Mark Byers

This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson's work alongside that of contemporaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198813252
• ISBN13: 9780198813255
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"