Literary Criticism Books & Reading
Poet to Publisher
Charles Olson's Correspondence with Donald Allen
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2005
- Category
- Books & Reading
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889224865
- Publish Date
- Mar 2005
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Donald M. Allen’s anthology The New American Poetry, published by Grove Press / Evergreen in the U.S.A. and the U.K., burst onto the literary scene in 1960 to become the single most important and influential book of poetry in the English language published in the second half of the 20th century.
Conceived originally as a collection intended to augment the anthologies of the 1950s with the work of American poets whose careers had flourished since the Second World War, it became, through the influence of Charles Olson (Donald Allen was his editor at Grove Press), a radical and revolutionary manifesto that echoed around the world.
spanning the period from the modernists through the poets of Origin and The Black Mountain Review, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, the New York poets of the Poet’s Theatre, to the first mapping and performance of a new poetry and poetics from the racial, sexual, aboriginal and cultural margins of a formerly Euro-centric and chauvinist poetry, The New American Poetry became as liberating a movement in writing and letters worldwide as abstract expressionism has been in the visual arts, and as jazz has been in music.
Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen tells the story of how that happened.
About the author
Ralph Maud is Emeritus Professor of English and Associate of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He founded the Charles Olson Literary Society. He is the author of Charles Olson Reading (1996) and the editor of The Selected Letters of Charles Olson (2000.) He has edited much of Dylan Thomas’s work, including The Notebook Poems 1930–1934 and The Broadcasts, and is co-editor, with Walford Davies, of Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems, 1934–1953 and Under Milk Wood. Maud is also the editor of The Salish People: Volumes I, II, III & IV by pioneer ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout. He has been a contributing editor to Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles, The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbours by Oliver Wells, and is the author of A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, and The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories—a collection of Henry W. Tate’s stories in Tate’s original English, which grew out of his survey of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian work, published as an article: “The Henry Tate-Franz Boas Collaboration on Tsimshian Mythology” in American Ethnologist. Maud’s subsequently published book, Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology, expands further on the relationship between Henry Tate and Franz Boas.
Editorial Reviews
?The letters make fascinating reading for their commentary on writers?and literary issues from 1957 to 1969 — “
” Canadian Literature
Other titles by Ralph Maud
A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend ebook
The Salish People: Volume IV
The Sechelt and South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island
The Salish People: Volume II
The Salish People volume III
The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories
After Completion
The Later Letters
Muthologos
Lectures and Interviews
Charles Olson at the Harbor
Where Have the Old Words Got Me?
Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems
Transmission Difficulties
Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology