[Poetry reading by Charles Olson at Goddard College, April 12, 1962] / Charles Olson.

Recorded at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. on April 12, 1962 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

This recording is of a reading by Charles Olson, held at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. on April 12, 1962. Olson reads selections from The Maximus poems, plus three short poems ("The Librarian," "Moonset, Gloucester, December 1, 1957, 1:58 AM," and "The distances"). He answers questions from the audience throughout the reading. Complementary to this recording (CUR020) is the lecture on Herman Melville that Olson delivered at Goddard two nights later (CUR021).

Charles Olson.

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1962

Sound recording

CUR020

from The Maximus poems:The sea marke (John Smith) --Maximus, to Gloucester Letter 15 (III) --Maximus, to Gloucester Letter 15 (IV) --A later note on letter #15 --first line of poem:[128 a mole] --View: fr the Orontes fr where Typhon --first line of poem:[The young ladies] (early version) --first line of poem:[Patriotism] --Bk II chapter 37 --first line of poem:[The rocks in Settlement Cove] --first line of poem:[Peloria the dog's upper lip kept curling] --In the face of a Chinese view of the city (early version) --first line of poem:[While on] --first line of poem:[Shag Rock] --first line of poem:[A 'learned man' sd Strabo (meaning Pytheus] --first line of poem:[Cyprus] --first line of poem:[After the storm was over] --first line of poem:[To travel Typhon] --first line of poem:[Up the steps, along the porch] --first line of poem:[People want delivery] --first line of poem:[the coast goes from Hurrian Hazzi to Tyre] --first line of poem:[Tesserae] --first line of poem:[Lane's eye-view of Gloucester] --Older than Byblos --Chronicles --first line of poem:[Sanuncthion lived] --first line of poem:[John Watts took] --Going right out of the century --The Gulf of Maine --Shag Rock --from The distances:The librarian --Moonset, Gloucester, December I, 1957, 1:58 AM --The distances --from The Maximus poems:Cashes --All my life I've heard about many --Letter 23.

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