Evidence of what is said
Subtitle: the correspondence between Ann Charters and Charles Olson about history and Herman Melville
By: with an introductory essay and photographs of Olson in Gloucester by Ann Charters
Contributors: Charters, Ann
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tavern Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781935635505
Subjects: Letters; Correspondence; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Correspondence between Ann Charters and Charles Olson about history and Herman Melville
Notes: "Evidence of What Is Said is the complete correspondence between noted Beat-Generation scholar and photographer Ann Charters and The Maximus Poems author Charles Olson. Beginning on January 7, 1968, with Charters' request for Olson to reflect on his "earliest enthusiasm for Melville," and continuing until late 1969, these letters traverse the final two years of Olson's life. Centered on Charters' book Olson/Melville: A Study in Affinity, the correspondence ultimately maps two writers' existence in an America that is simultaneously experiencing the wonder of the moon landing and the fractured, chaotic escalation of the Vietnam War. All the while, their exchanges navigate the convolutions of Olson's ideas about history, space, and time in relation to his pivotal book Call Me Ishmael and his Black Mountain College lectures. Also included in this spontaneous, thoughtful, and thought-provoking epistolary is Olson's 1968 "Essay on the Matter Of," Charters' photo essay of Olson in Gloucester, and "Melville in the Berkshires," her work of experimental insight that incorporates writing by Melville."--back cover.
Table of contents: title: The correspondence between Ann Charters and Charles Olson; title: Charles Olson in Gloucester, Summer 1968; title: Melville in the Berkshires; title: Notes to the correspondence; title: Olson citations accompanying photographs.