Dream The End » Charles Olson https://dreamtheend.com Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:09:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 From “Human Universe” (1951) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=5610 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=5610#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:50:54 +0000 tania http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=5610 “There is only one thing you can do about kinetic, reenact it. Which is why the man said, he who possesses rhythm possesses the universe. And why art is the only twin life has – its only valid metaphysic. Art does not seek to describe but to enact.”

]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=5610 0 Charles Olson – Bio https://dreamtheend.com/?p=5365 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=5365#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:55:17 +0000 tania http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=5365 Charles Olson was born in 1910 in Worchester, MA. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1933 and subsequently enrolled at Harvard University from 1936-1938. He was a major influence on postmodern American poetry and was a leading voice of the “Black Mountain Poets”, which included Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Joel Oppenheimer. His most notable works include “The Maximus Poems”, “Projective Verse”, and the essay “Human Universe” published in 1951. He passed away in 1970.

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