Collected Prose

by Charles Olson

Book Overview

The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse.

The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520208730
• ISBN13: 9780520208735
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"