Charles Olson

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the language school, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist of morning."

Read more about Charles Olson:  Life, Selected Bibliography, Further Reading

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    one loves only form,
    and form only comes
    into existence when
    the thing is born

    born of yourself,
    Charles Olson (1910–1970)

    Beware the dead. And hail them. They teach you drunkenness.
    You have your own place to drink. Hail and beware them, when they come.
    —Charles Olson (1910–1970)