Author: Olson, Charles (1910-1970)
Title: Upon a Moebus Strip. First Edition of the Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress on deckle edged paper.2pp 26 x 18cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby..Charles Olson was an innovative poet and essayist whose work influenced numerous other writers during the 1950s and 1960s. In his influential essay on projective (or open) verse, Olson asserts that "a poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. Okay. Then the poem itself must, at all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge.".. Upon a Möbius Strip" uses the mathematical concept of a Möbius strip as a metaphor for the interconnectedness and continuous flow of life, often interpreted as a reflection on the cyclical nature of existence, with no clear distinction between inside and outside, beginning and end...Even before his trip to the Yucatán, archaeological references were slipping into Olson’s work. His poem “The Moebius Strip,” which was included in Y&X, features a “stone-henge plain.” In his 1949 poem “The Kingfishers” he wrote, “si j’ai du goût, ce n’est guères/que pour la terre et les pierres,” translated by Olson’s friend Robert Creeley as “If I have any taste, it is only for earth and stones.” The poem’s last line is the evocative and elegiac “I hunt among stones.” Among the Mayans’ stones, Olson hunted language. .
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Title: Upon a Moebus Strip. First Edition of the Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress on deckle edged paper.2pp 26 x 18cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby..Charles Olson was an innovative poet and essayist whose work influenced numerous other writers during the 1950s and 1960s. In his influential essay on projective (or open) verse, Olson asserts that "a poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. Okay. Then the poem itself must, at all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge.".. Upon a Möbius Strip" uses the mathematical concept of a Möbius strip as a metaphor for the interconnectedness and continuous flow of life, often interpreted as a reflection on the cyclical nature of existence, with no clear distinction between inside and outside, beginning and end...Even before his trip to the Yucatán, archaeological references were slipping into Olson’s work. His poem “The Moebius Strip,” which was included in Y&X, features a “stone-henge plain.” In his 1949 poem “The Kingfishers” he wrote, “si j’ai du goût, ce n’est guères/que pour la terre et les pierres,” translated by Olson’s friend Robert Creeley as “If I have any taste, it is only for earth and stones.” The poem’s last line is the evocative and elegiac “I hunt among stones.” Among the Mayans’ stones, Olson hunted language. .
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Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5902
- Book number: 16-5902
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