The Maximus Poems
"Olson's was a voice of power and splendor, one of the greatest  our  century has heard. . . . There is every reason to think that this will  become  the standard edition of Olson's masterwork."  --Village Voice"Probably the most ambitious poem ever written by an American."  --Los  Angeles TimesThe %northwest Corner Of Shifting Man Carrying(literary Result)11 O'clock At Night. The Southeast Wind128 A Mole13 Vessels, And David Pearce's14 Men Stage Head Winter 1624/51st Letter On GeorgesThe 1st Lot From The Cutt23 School And 16 Columbia3rd Letter On Georges, UnwrittenA 3rd Morning It's Beautiful - February7 Years & You Cld Carry Cinders In Yr HandAbove The Head Of John Day's Pasture LandThe Account Book Of B ElleryAdded To %making A RepublicAfter The Storm Was OverAll My Life I've Heard About ManyAll Night LongThe AlligatorAnd MelancholyAnd Now Let All The Ships Come InApril Today Main StreetAristotle & AugustineAn Art Called GothonicAs Cabeza De Vaca WasAs Of Parsonses Or Fishermans Field Or Cressys Beach ...Astride %the Cabot %faultAt The Boundary Of The Mighty WorldThe Authority Of Cape AnnB. Ellery -- Cinvat Bridge -- AerBailyn Shows Sharp RiseBarbara Ellis, RampThe Beginnings (factsBetween Cruiser & Plato -- Sea Mountains AndBk 11 Chapter 37The Blow Is CreationThe Boats' Lights In The Dawn Now Going So Swiftly TheBohlin 1Bohlin 2Bona Dea (athenaBottled Up For Days, MostlyThe Bottom %backwardBrang That Thing OutCapt Christopher Levett (of York)CashesCelestial Evening, October 1967ChroniclesCivic DiasterThe Coast Goes From Hurrian Hazzi To TyreCoiled, %throughout The SystemCole's IslandThe Condition Of The Light From The SunA Contract Entered Into ByThe Cormorant %and The SpindleCornelyThe Cow Of Dogtown'cromlech' Of Course It IsThe Cut'cut Creek,' The River Is, Wm Saville'sCyprus %the StrangledThe Day's BeginningsDeath Is The Mother Binding Us To Our EndThe Death Of Charles OlsonDecember 18thDecember 22ndDecember, 1960Descartes SoldierThe Diadem Of The DogThe DistancesDogtown -- Ann %robinson DavisDogtown The Dog TownEach Night Is No Loss, It Is A Daily EclipseThe Earth With A City In Her HairEchidna Is The BiteEnyalion Of %brown EarthEssay On Queen TiyEvident Presence Of Rock-tumbleExisted %3000 %bc?Father Sky - Mother Earth -- From My Own Point Of ViewThe Feathered Bird Of The Harbor Of GloucesterFebruary 3rd 1966. High Tide. 10.6 Feet. 8:43 AmFire It Back Into The ContinentThe First Of Morning Was Always Over ThereFlower Of The UnderworldFollowed His Sow To ApplesFor 'moira'For Robt Duncan, Who Understands What's Going OnThe FrontletFull Moon [staring Out Window, 5:30 Am March 4thFurther Completion Of PlatFurther Completion Of Play (before They Drown Dogtown With A ReservoirGee, What I Call The Upper Road Was The WayGeorge Decker; A FishermanGoing Right Out Of The CenturyGolden Venetian Light From Back Of Agamenticus Height Falling ...Got Me Home, The LightThe Great Descending Light Of DayGreat Washing -- Rock Renew One's Faith In The Fathers -- I Was BornThe Groaner Shakes Louder The Whistling Buoy Louder What RousesThe Gulf Of MaineGylfaginning ViHaving Descried The NationHaving Developed The Differences, That Abraham Robinson, To Take HimHe CameHe Who Walks With His House OnHeaven As Sky Is Made Of Stone (diorite - Ex-Hector-bodyHepit-naga-atosisHer HeadlandHer Stern Like A Box TheHere In The Fort My Heart DothHis Health, His Poetry, His Love All In OneThe History %of Earth. And OfHistory Is The Memory Of Time'home', To The ShoreHomo AnthroposHotel Steinplatz, Berlin, December 25 (1966)The Hour Of Evening -- Supper Hour, For My NeighborsI Am The Gold Machine And Now I Have Trenched Out, Smeared, OccupiedI Believe In GodI Believe In Religion Not Magic Or Science I Believe In SocietyI Have Been An Ability -- A Machine -- Up ToI Live UnderneathI Looked Up And SawI Looked UpI Set Out Now:I Stand Up On You, Fort PlaceI Swung Out, At 8 Or 10I Told The WomanI Was Bold, I Had Courage, The Tide TonightI'm Going To Hate Leavinh This Earthly ParadiseI, Maximus Of Gloucester, To YouIf The Deaths Do Not Stop We'll Have No Earth Or Years LeftImbued %with The LightIn The Face Of A Chinese View Of The CityIn The HarborIn The Interleaved Almanacks For 1646 And 1647 Of DanforthInto The Hill Went IntoInto The Stream Or Entrance To The Inner Harbor, GloucesterThe Island, The River, The ShoreIt Says The Amitie SailedJl 17 1961John BurkeJohn Watts TookJune 6th, 1963Just As Morning Twilight And The Gulls, Gloucester, May 1966Just To Have Her Body In My Mind (to Objectify The Possibility, TheJw (from The Danelaw) SaysKent Circle SongThe Land As HaithubuLand's EndLand's Eye-view Of GloucesterThe LapThe Last Man Except ConceivablyA Later Note On Letter #15Later Tyrian BusinessA 'learned Man' Sd Strabo (meaning PytheusThe Left Hand Is The Calyx Of The FlowerLetter #41 [broken Off]Letter 10Letter 16Letter 22Letter 23Letter 3Letter 5Letter 6Letter 7Letter 72Letter 9Letter, May 2, 1959A Letter, On Fishing Grounds [of, The Gulf Of Maine] By Walter H. RichLicked Man (as Such) Out Of The IceLight Signals & Mass PointsLike Mountains. Stage Head & Tablet Rock Floated UpLike Mr. Pester Acknowledged His Sinfulness In BeingThe Living Hand, Now Warm, Now CapableLost From The Loss Of Her Dragger HeistedMain Street %is Deserted, The HillsThe Man-with-the-house-on-his-head CarryingMareoceanumA MaximusMaximus Further On (december 28th 1959)Maximus Letter # WhateverMaximus Of GloucesterA Maximus SongMaximus To Gloucester, Letter 14Maximus To Gloucester, Letter 15Maximus To Gloucester, Letter 27 (withheld)Maximus To Himself June 1964Maximus, At The HarborMaximus, At Tyre And At BostonMaximus, From Dogtown - 1Maximus, From Dogtown - 2Maximus, From Dogtown - Iv]Maximus, In Gloucester Sunday LxvMaximus, March 1961-2Maximus, To GloucesterMaximus, To Gloucester, Letter 11Maximus, To Gloucester, Letter 157Maximus, To Gloucester, Letter 19 (a Pastoral Letter)Maximus, To Gloucester, Sunday, July 19Maximus, To Gloucester: Letter 2Maximus, To HimselfMelkarth Of TyreMigration In Fact (which Is ProbablyMonday, November 26th, 1962The Moon Is The Measure -- Man Is The MeasureMother Of The Tides (father, Sun)Mother-spirit To Fuck At Noumenon, ViergeThe Mountain Of No Difference Which IMy Carpenter's Son's Son's Will, Lt William Stevens, 1701My Memory IsMy Shore, My Sounds, My Earth, My PlaceMy Wife -- My Car -- My Color -- And MyselfNasturtium %is Still My Flower -- But I Am A PoetThe New EmpireNorth, %in The Ice, The BulgarNot The Intaglio Method Or SkatingA Note On The AboveO John Josselyn YouO QuadrigaThe OceanOceaniaOf Old Times, There Was A Very BeautifulOf The ParsonsesOff-uplandOlder Than ByblosOn Bemo Ledge He FellOn First Looking Out Through Juan De La Cosa's EyesOn The Earth's Edge Is Alone The Way To StandOne Of The Bronze Plaques Which Decorate TheseOr LindsayOut Of The Light Of Heaven The FlowerOut Over The Land Skope View As From Alexander Baker's StillOuter Darkness -- Inner Schoodic - The RangesPart Of The Flower Of GloucesterPatriotism %is The Preserved ParkPeloria -- The Dog's Upper Lip Kept CurlingPeople Want DeliveryPhalaropes %piled Up On ThatchersPhysically, I Am Home. Polish ItThe PictureA Plantation A BeginningPoem 143. The Festival AspectThe Poimanderes: Now I See What Was UpA Prayer, To The Lord, Cast Down Like A Good Old CatholicProemPublished My Own Soul August My Father's MonthRages %strain %dog Of TararusRamp: %to Eat God's% FoodThe RecordThe Return To The Mail-bag, OrRight At The CutThe River - 1The River - 2The River Map And We're DoneThe Rocks In The Settlement CoveRotundumSaid Mrs TarantinoThe Salmon OfThe Salt, & Minerals, Of Earth Return -- EnyalionSame Day, LaterSanuncthion LivedThe Savages, Or Voyages Of Samyel De Champlain Of BrouageThe Sea's %boiling -- The Land'sSequentiorShag Rock %bull's EyeThe Shape Of Weymouth For There GloucesterShe Who Met The Serpent In The Pond The AdulteressShips For The West Indies, Or Southern VoyageShort Possible Poem To Follow Long Excessive 'venetian Job' ...Siberia - ?Signature To Petition On Ten Pound Island Asked Of Me By V. FerriniThe Sky, %of GloucesterSlownesses %which Are AnSnow At EveningSo SassafrasSome Good NewsThe Song And Dance OfThe Songs Of Maximus: Song 1The Songs Of Maximus: Song 2The Songs Of Maximus: Song 3The Songs Of Maximus: Song 4The Songs Of Maximus: Song 5The Songs Of Maximus: Song 6Space And Time The SalivaStage Fort ParkStevens SongStiffening, In The Master Founders' WillsStrod The Water's Edge & TheSun %right In My EyeSun %upside DownSunday, January 16, 1966Sweet SalmonSwimming Through The Air, In Schools Upon The HighwaysTa Meteura %meteor ThingsTake The Earth In Under A Single ReviewTall In The FortTantrist %sat SawThe TelesphereTesseraeThank God %i Chose A ProtestantThat Island %floating In The SeaThat There Was A Woman In Gloucester, Massachusetts WhoseThat's The Combination The OceanThere Was A Salt-works At Stage FortThese People Sat Right Out My Window TooThey Brawled In The Streets, Trapped The Night WatchmanThey Say She Went Off Fucking Every SundayThis Town %works AtThurs Sept 14th 1961To Enter Into Their BodiesTo Have The Bright Body Of Sex And LoveTo Make Those Silent Vessels Go, To Make ThemTo My Potuguese -- And, Seeing In A Sicilian's Head Yesterday, &To Travel TyphonTurn Out YourThe TwistTyrian BusinessThe Unit -- The Smallest -- There IsUp The Steps, Along The PorchThe Usefulness %all Which Can Be Recovered At This DateValorem IsThe Vault %of HeavenVeda Upanished Edda ThanThe View - July 29, 1961'view' Fr The Orontes Fr Where TyphonWatch-houseWest GloucesterWhen Do Poppies BloomWhile On %obadiah Bruen's Island, The AlgonquinsWhite Ships All Covered With IceThe Whole Thing Has Run So Fast Away It Breaks My HeartWholly AbsorbedWhy Light, And Flowers? Paul OakleyWilliam StevensThe Winning ThingThe Winter The Gen. Starks Was StuckThe Wolf %slinks OffThe Woman Who Said She Went Out Every SundayWonis KvamWrote My First PoemsYou Drew The Space InThe Young Ladies %independent Society[2nd Letter On Georges][to Get The Rituals Straight I HaveDear Lexicon, I Died In You--Table of Poems fromPoem Finder®