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Charles Olson at Goddard College, 1962: On Melville
Charles Olson
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Listen to a 86 minute recording, or download the file
Saturday, April 14, 1962
Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont)
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Olson giving a talk on Melville (April 14, 1962)
Transcribed by Kyle Schlesinger
Charles Olson (1910-1970) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late Forties his work received major attention. He was writing teacher and then rector at Black Mountain College, where Robert Creeley later taught. Volumes of Charles Olson's poetry include The Maximus Poems, and The Collected Poems.
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet and doctoral candidate in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. He is the editor of Cuneiform Press and collaboratively edits Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose.
Organized by
Aaron Levy, Louis Cabri
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MLA Style:
Charles Olson. "Charles Olson at Goddard College, 1962: On Melville." Slought Foundation Online Content. [14 April 1962;
Accessed 7 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11092/>.
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