[Poetry reading at Nietzsche's, Buffalo, N.Y., November 16, 1986] / Jack Clarke.

Recorded at Nietzsche's in Buffalo, N.Y. on November 16, 1986 on a sound cassette by Paul Hogan, who donated the recording to the Poetry Collection.

Jack Clarke read selections from Charles Olson's poetry and prose at Nietzsche's in Buffalo, N.Y. Clarke had been Olson's friend and colleague when they were both teachers at the University at Buffalo. Three of the poems Clarke read, "for my friend," "The drum world," and "Golden Venetian light from back of Agamenticus height falling fike Zeus' dust all over the river & marsh as night falling Saturday June 28th 1969 on Gloucester ripping Red River" were related to himsel. The first poem was written for Clarke, the second contains a reference to Clarke, and the third was written in the form of a letter to Clarke. In addition to reading from The Maximus poems, Clarke also read uncollected poetry and prose from Olson: The Journal of the Charles Olson Archives, edited by his University at Buffalo colleague, George F. Butterick. Perhaps the most accurate description of the appearance is that it was a lecture by Clarke on The Maximus poems, as Clarke devoted much of the time to discussing the origins of Olson's long poem and to making exegeses of the selections. Among the works and authors Clarke cited as influences on The Maximus poems were Ezra Pound, The art of the logos by J.A.K. Thomson, The histories of Herodotus, Hesiod, Jane Harrison, The Greek myths by Robert Graves, and ?

Jack Clarke.

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1986

Sound recording

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from Olson 5: The journal of the Charles Olson Archives, edited by George F. Butterick:Note: "Again the sense the forms we have are conventions" --Post-West --from Olson 6:Charles Olson, for R.C. --from The Maximus poems:I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you (opening five lines) --from Editing The Maximus poems, ed. Butterick:first line of poem:[Ocean, and we shall fall] --from The Maximus poems:I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you (1) --Some good news --A later note on letter #15 -- [Maximus, from Dogtown--IV] --from Olson 9:first line of poem:[To my Portuguese -- and, seeing in a Sicilian's head yesterday, & . . . ] --for my friend --Golden Venetian light from back of Agamenticus height falling like Zeus' dust all over the river & marsh as night falling saturday June 28th 1969 on Gloucester ripping Red River.

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