Charles Olson memorial lecture
By: Robert Duncan ; Ammiel Alcalay, Meira Levinson, Bradley Lubin, Megan Paslawski, Kyle Waugh, and Rachel Wilson, editors
Contributors: Olson, Charles, 1910-1970; Alcalay, Ammiel, ed; Levinson, Meira, ed; Lubin, Bradley, ed; Paslawski, Megan, ed; Waugh, Kyle, ed; Wilson, Rachel, ed; State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry/Rare Books Collection; University of Pennsylvania. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 2, no. 4, Spring 2011; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- ser. 2, no. 4
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Congresses; Textual Criticism; Modern Poetry; History and criticism; Poetics
Description: Duncan's lecture is a transcription (supplied by PennSound, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing) of a recording of Robert Duncan's fourth lecture (March 29, 1979), in the first series of 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: "Robert Duncan's fourth lecture (March 29th, 1979), in the first series of Charles Olson Memorial Lectures is published courtesy of the Jess Collins Trust and is copyrighted 2011 by the Trust."--Acknowledgments.

Invited to deliver the first Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, Robert Duncan gave four lectures in Buffalo, from March 20th to March 29th, 1979. Our decision to work on the fourth lecture derives mainly from the fact that it is here that Duncan most directly addresses Olson... ."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.