Charles Olsen & The Orange Jellyfish Alliance by mindgallery
Certainly we’re the only species that writes
in many languages, our own roads
to enlightenment
and sometimes it’s right
there in front
of us
simply waiting while
we were busy
learning
how to listen, so
we could
see
properly
* Note To Self
Charles Olson didn’t consider himself a poet or writer by profession but rather that nebulous
rare archeologist of morning, reminiscent of Thoreau.
He wrote on a typewriter
It’s to the advantage of the typewriter that due to its rigidity and space precisions
it can for a poet indicate breath, pause, suspensions, syllables
juxtapositions and even parts of phrases
For the first time the poet has the stave and bar a musician has. For the first
time, he can without convention of rhyme or meter record the
listening he has done to his own speech
and by that one act indicate how he’d want any reader
silently or otherwise to voice
his work
Collected Prose
Selected Poems
In Love, In Sorrow
A Nation of Nothing but Poetry
Poetry and Truth
The Special View of History
In Cold Hell, In Thicket
This
Letter for Melville
To Corrado Cagli
Call Me Ishmael
