Charles Olson shaped postmodern American writing through his poetry and his essays. As the successor to Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the inheritor of Herman Melville's prophetic voice, he was the leading voice of the Black Mountain...

Charles Olson has come to be recognized in the few years since his death as a major shaper of a postmodern American poetry, the chief successor to Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. He was a leading voice of the so-called Black Mountain Poets...

Charles Olson emerged at the mid-century with a manifesto for a new poetry, "Projective Verse," exactly at a time when other American poets had not only rejected the modernist heritage of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams but had retreated to an...

Charles Olson (1910-1970) defined and practiced an open, kinetic poetry which influenced many of the second generation of modern poets. Charles Olson, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1910, was an energetic giant of a man. In his youth his energy...