Collected Prose

"[T]he publication of COLLECTED PROSE goes a long way towards making Olson both a little less difficult and a little more approachable. This landmark volume helps us grasp a poet who was at once daring, discursive, and didactic, and whose 'thots' remain as provocative as when he first started voicing them in the buttoned-down poetry world of postwar America....Through their editing, Allen and Friedlander have done their best to cultivate Olson's strain of humility and de-deify him. Their notes are thorough and illuminating while not being pedantic or cultish....Similarly, their decision to arrange Olson's essays topically instead of chronologically signals their determination to emphasize not the definitive evolution of his mind but rather the recurring preoccupations of his thought."Olson, Charles is the author of 'Collected Prose' with ISBN 9780520208735 and ISBN 0520208730.