Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. "The war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it." (Diana di Prima, pg. 221). Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With a preface by editor, publisher..... More

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

New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. “This book starts from the assumption that poetics are enabling discourses that support intellectual projects in which poetry as such is not always the horizon. For the three poets I discuss in these pages, Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson, poetry is a means to an end; that end includes the utopian prospect of a renewal of society..... More

Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Albert glover, with his ownership signature, date, commentary, marginalia & ephemera. "No American since Ezra Pound has done as much to change the face of poetry in (the USA) as has Charles Olson (1910-1970). His unlimited energy and intelligence "staggered" his contemporaries (as William Carlos Williams said) or left them furiously perplexed by the unorthodox demands of his..... More

Toronto, CAN: Shuffaloff / Eternal Network, 2010. Limited First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Michael Boughn to Albert Glover. “[Charles] OIson's push in Proprioception is to find a way to unfold his claim for a "secularization that loses nothing of the divine," a proposal he makes in "the hinges of civilization to be put back on the door," emphasizing this as America's threatened inheritance. If this..... More

Storrs, CT: The University of Connecticut Library, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. “There can be no question that the making of The Maximus Poems, or at least the final volume of the series, is one of the more unusual events in recent poetry. Although there have been a number of instances where an author’s work has been finished for him by a colleague or editor or other professional, there is no..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1968. First Softcover Edition. "Actually Ishmael is a great deal different than it ever seems to be taken to be." (Charles Olson, 1968). Olson/Melville: A Study in Affinity, the pioneering study of Black Mountain poet Charles Olson's (1910-1970) work on & affinity with author of Moby Dick Herman Melville (1819-1891) by Ann Charters (b. 1936), the acclaimed scholar & academician whom us at Third Mind Books..... More

New York, NY, USA: Paragon House, 1990. First Edition. In Love, In Sorrow illuminates the fatal differences that came to separate those who embodied America's prewar and postwar, modern and postmodern literary ideals. This correspondence, too, between two of the most gifted writers of our modern era, battling ferociously over the issues of loyalty and love between artists, poignantly portrays the dilemma facing any writer who accepts, and then rejects..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. “The American poet Charles Olson (1910-70) was a large man, not only in physical size, energies, and appetites, but in the mythic dimension with which he invested both his work and his life. He believed that ‘the whole world & all experience is, no matter how real, only a system of metaphor for the allegory (Keats called it)..... More

New York, NY, USA: Floating Bear, 1961. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “the gracious gods / the red man / and the white man / how deliberately Sam Adams parlayed / the “Battle of Lexington” as he had / previously set up the Boston / Massacre as well as led his Mohawks / out of Fanuel Hall to bring about / the Boston Tea Party – failing to get a constitutional..... More

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. “Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless—that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and must discover for itself fresh meaning. His argument focuses on four pairs of poets—Eliot/Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan, and Whitman/Creeley. Fredman explores the various measures taken by these American poets to provide a provisional ground upon..... More

Hanover, NH: Center for Paleocybernetic Research, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. “It must be demonstrated ceaselessly, that a continually “growing economy” is not only unhealthy, but a cancer. And that the criminal waste which is allowed in the name of competition–especially that ultimate in wasteful needless competition, hot wars and cold wars between any and all of the modern bureaucratic and hierarchical nation-states–must be halted totally with ferocious energy and..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Causal Mythology, if properly billed, would tell you what Your Favorite Independent Booksellers at Third Mind Books took the time to tell you: that it holds within its covers a lecture delivered by the great-&-powerful Charles Olson (b. 1910-1970). The second thing to know is that it's not just a "lecture," but a "Lecture + Dialogue," one that features..... More