"Old father, old artificer"
Subtitle: Charles Olson memorial lecture
By: Diane di Prima ; Ana Božičević & Ammiel Alcalay, editors
Contributors: Božičević, Ana, editor; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor, editor of series; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities; Božičević, Ana, editor; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 4, Fall 2012; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 4.
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American poetry
Other titles: Charles Olson Memorial Lecture
Description: The text is from Di Prima’s lecture (March 19 or 26, 1985), in the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures in Buffalo, NY. The Charles Olson Memorial Lectures were established by Robert Creeley at the English Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and were an annual event from 1979 to 1989.
Notes: "The Olson di Prima evokes is sighted with truth-seeking, a strength that is a vulnerability (as in the episode of the Black Mountain glass pane), and the conscience of a continent (as when the child of immigrants looks into the pewter-filled window of history). The thirst for such con(text)science, a sense of the continent, cannot be overestimated in the time we now find ourselves, when to know and hold our ground, and the history of the country we inherit, is increasingly becoming a matter of life and death in the 'war against the imagination.' The fresh materiality of 'we,' 'our,' and 'ground' manifest in these conversations, mouthed so wholly away from a political mainstream, is their present to the present."--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Charles Olson memorial lecture --; title: Biographical notes.