Saturday, November 27, 2021

Charles Olson

Charles Olson writing at Black Mountain College. Portrait taken by Jonathan Williams of Charles Olson writing at Black Mountain College. Charles Olson taught Writing and Literature at Black Mountain College 1948-1949, 1951, 1953-1956 and in 1953 was appointed the college's Rector. 

Photograph by Jonathan Williams

The Songs of Maximus: 

Song 1


colored pictures 
of all things to eat: dirty 
postcards 
And words, words, words  
all over everything 
No eyes or ears left  
to do their own doings (all 

invaded, appropriated, outraged, all senses 

including the mind, that worker on what is 
And that other sense  
made to give even the most wretched, or any of us, wretched, 
that consolation (greased 
lulled  
even the street-cars 



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