Albequerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Robert Duncan's lectures on Charles Olson, given occasionally from 1961 to 1983, there is a full-throated challenge to the hegemony of New Criticism as an aesthetic and critical practice. Each lecture addresses Olson's notion of "projective verse" (for Duncan, "field poetics"), a method of composition that encourages the variables of personal creative practice to interact within a larger..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher's Books, 1979. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I first wrote Charles Olson, I was a sophomore in a small midwestern college, fancied myself a poet and rebel, and faithfully read Evergreen Review (quite proud to imagine I was the only person in central Michigan with a subscription. It was 1959, and Olson's essay, "Human Universe," caught my attention for an afternoon and moved me to..... More