Author: Olson, Charles.
Title: That There Was a Woman in Gloucester, Massachusetts Whose / Father Was a Beothuk "Red" Indian... (Broadside).
Description: Buffalo, NY: The Institute of Further Studies, [1968]. [1968]. - sc Small quarto [8 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide]. Poem printed on one side of a sheet of cream stock with the printed signature "Charles Olson / ['LX VIII}". Folded once, in the original printed mailing envelope. The envelope is somewhat darkened. Near fine in a very good envelope.

First edition.

Addressed to Allen Ginsberg on the recto of the envelope, which has the address of The Institute of Further Studies printed in the top left corner.

The poem is about a woman who describes a canoe she remembers traveling in in 1828. "So that we have here an instance of the Pleistocene / 'boat' as such - the Biscay shallop of another / age literally en place in Gloucester, Massachusetts... Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; AMERICAN POET; CHARLES OLSON; BROADSIDE; THAT THERE WAS A WOMAN IN GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS WHOSE / FATHER WAS A BEOTHUK "RED" INDIAN; CANOE; BOAT; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; MODERN FIRST EDITION.

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