Letters for Origin, 1950-1956

x, 141 pp. "...letters from the influential American poet, Charles Olson, to Cid Carman, the founding editor of Origin. The longest lived contemporary magazine... it was Olson's literary advice... which helped make Origin the most important magazine of its time, one that published more "major postwar poets" than any other journal. These letters from the founding father of the Black Mountain movement to his editor Cid Carman represent an historical recor of that new force in American poetry, its philosophy and its principles. The letters are sprinkled with interesting and relevant observations on ancient verse, archaeology, modern art, and many other topics."