[Charles Olson interview, August 1969] / Herbert A. Kenny.

Recorded at the home of Herbert A. Kenny in Manchester, Mass. in August 1969 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

This recording is of an interview with Charles Olson, conducted by Herbert A. Kenny in 1969. According to George F. Butterick, who transcribed and published the interview in the first issue of "Olson: the journal of the Charles Olson Archives" the interview was held in Kenny's house in Manchester, Mass. in late August 1969. Kenny, Butterick writes, "arranged this interview in preparation for a book of his own on Cape Ann, eventually published under the title Cape Ann: Cape America." Among the figures and works discussed by Olson are painter Daniel Jerome Elwell, John J. Babson's The history of Gloucester (1860), Babson's anonymous pamphlet The fisheries of Gloucester, from 1623 to 1876 (1876), James B. Connolly, Captain Joseph W. Collins, Donald MacKay, John Smith, John White, and John Winthrop.

Herbert A. Kenny.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1969

Sound recording

CUR023

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