[Poetry reading and lecture, June 1962] / Charles Olson.

Recorded by George Butterick on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Recording of a poetry reading by Charles Olson. Part of the reading is a private reading made in Gloucester, Massachusetts for Robert Creeley for Christmas.

Charles Olson.

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

1962

Sound recording

BUT044

Disc 1.Maximus from Dogtown II --The distances --The librarian --To Gerhardt, there, among Europe's things of which he has written us in his Brief an Creeley und Olson --In cold hell, in Thickett --ABC's --Letter, May 2, 1959. --Olson for Creeley at Christmas:John Burke --I tell you it's cruel --A six inch chapter in verse --Sit by the window and refuse --The song --Letter 24 --Letter 25 --The picture --Maximus, home again, crying out to all. --Disc 2.Some good news (excerpt) --Captain Christopher Levett of York --7 years and you old carry cinders in your hand --The song of Ullijummi --Lecture --Maximus to Gloucester --So sassafrass --Maximus to Gloucester, letter 27 --An ode on Cape Ann --From Maximus 4 --View from the Orontes from where typhon --Chronicles --The Gulf of Maine --Maximus, from Dogtown I --Going right out of the century --Maximus to Gloucester Letter 15 --A later note on letter 15 --Letter 41.

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