Charles Olson memorial lectures
By: Edward Dorn ; Lindsey M. Freer, editor
Contributors: Freer, Lindsey M., editor; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities; University of Pennsylvania. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing; Freer, Lindsey M., editor; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 5, Fall 2012; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 3, number 5.
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: 59
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American poetry
Description: Dorn’s lecture texts are transcriptions (supplied by PennSound, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing) of recordings of Edward Dorn's first and third lectures (March 1981), in the 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: "Over the course of these three talks, Dorn lays out the current scope of an American poetics on the verge of complete (academic) institutionalization. Through the active curation of both Olson's words and his own Olson-inspired work, as well as letters from certain correspondents, Dorn charts an alternative course - a survival guide for the Eighties, rooted not in the Buddhism of the Naropa community or the obscurantist literary theory of the modern-day English department but in the lived experience which drove Olson's 'projective verse' out off the page and onto the docks of Gloucester or the archeological sites of Mexican antiquity." -Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54).
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Charles Olson memorial lecture #1 --; title: Charles Olson memorial lecture #3 --; title: Bibliography --; title: Biographical notes.