The Charles Olson Society (Vancouver, Canada)

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Charles Olson Literary Society

1104 Maple Street

Vancouver, B.C.

V6J 3R6 Canada

Contact Ralph Maud, president, at the above address, or:

Telephone (6o4) 731-7236

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#1                      Jack Clarke memorial; "Duende, Muse, and Angel" (Vancouver, 1963) tape transcription; Charles Olson Society business.

#2                     Olson reading at Goddard College (1962) tape transcription; Olson letter to George Bowering; chronology of Olson's visits with Ezra Pound.

#3                     Harry Levin on Olson's Harvard reading (1962); "Reading at Berkeley: The Next Day" (1965) tape transcription; Goddard reading, part 2.

#4                     "Talk at Cortland" (1962) tape transcription; Ralph Maud's visit to Philip Whalen.

#5                     A Melville Issue: Maud's critique of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Moby-Dick; Goddard reading, part 3.

#6                     Berkeley miscellany; Olson's visit to Toronto (1960) by Kenneth McRobbie.

#7                     "A Challenge to Marjorie Perloff;" Olson's correspondence with Suzanne Mowat, Zoe Brown et al. at Berkeley, 1965 and after.

#8                     A Special Issue for the Robin Blaser Conference: "Quicks and Strings," with 15 letters from Olson to Blaser (1957-59); Perloff's reply re. Olson's "misogyny."

#9                     "Death of a Poet" (newspaper account of Olson's funeral, and an obituary); Thomas Parkinson obit. and linkage with Berkeley '65; Richard Wilbur on Olson at Wesleyan U.; Gerald Burns on errors in the UCal Maximus Poems; Rachel Blau Duplessis on Perloff.

#10                   The Charles Olson Festival in Gloucester (1995), transcript of panel discussion, with photos.

#11                   "As I Recall: Charles Olson and Ezra Pound," a memoir of post-war Washington by Frank Moore, with two letters from Olson.

#12                   "The 'Christine Kerrigan' Affair:" Maud on Clark's interpretations of Olson's relationship with Panna Grady; Olson's review of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.

#13                   A Buffalo Issue: Memoirs by Albert Cook and Mac Hammond; Olson letter to Maud re. the Feinberg Certificate; Olson's answer to a faculty questionnaire.

#14/15           "The Correspondence of Robert Payne and Charles Olson," edited by Ralph Maud.

#16                   "Background to Berkeley — IX;" annotation of "Reading at Berkeley" (Muthologos I).an>

#17                   The Ralph Maud Collection of Charles Olson's Books; proposed Charles Olson Centre; topics for Olson studies; Maud's involvement in Olson studies.

#18                   Vancouver press on photographer Harry Redl; contact sheets of Redl's photos, San Francisco, 1957; Joseph E. Garland's memorial to Olson; Maud on Olson's place in Melville scholarship, part 2.

#19                   Recollections of Olson in Buffalo by Albert Glover, with letters from Olson to Glover.

#20                  "Berkeley: Free Speech and Free Verse" in The Nation (1965), with Olson's and others' responses and a manifesto by Mario Savio and others; Gerald Burns on Olson's difficulties with the typography of Maximus Poems IV, V, VI.

#21                   Barry Miles's review of Maximus IV, V, VI and liner notes for Olson's Folkways recording; "A Melville Section;" "Letter for Melville 1951" explicated by Maud; Berkeley '65, continued; Asheville, NC show honoring Black Mountain College.

#22                  "The William Bronk-Charles Olson Correspondence," edited by Burt Kimmelman.

#23/24          Storrs Special Double Issue; news from UConn Special Collections curator Rutherford Witthus; Olson's notebooks listed; detailed notes from the 1945 notebooks.

#25                  Letters from Fielding Dawson; Hilda Morley's review of Duberman's Black Mountain College; John Clarke on Tom Clark; Gerald Burns's review of Maud's Charles Olson's Reading.

#26                  Greg Gibson's memoir of Jean Kaiser; Michael Rumaker's Black Mountain Days; letter from William Corbett; Olson's 1947 "Faust Buch" transcribed; "Tom Clark and the Collected Prose."

#27                  Part 1: Memorial tributes to Kate Olson, Albert Cook, and Charles Watts.

Part 2: Announcements and materials for the 1999 Peripatetic Conference, Gloucester, Mass.

#28                  J.H. Prynne's 1971 Simon Fraser lecture; Olson to Richard Chase on Melville; Alex Davis on Mary Fiore's marginalia in Boer's Charles Olson in Connecticut; "Dear Charley," a letter in verse by Fielding Dawson.

#29                  "Charles Olson: Corrective Measures:" a retraction re "The Kingfishers" in Maud's What Does Not Change; "Tom Clark on the Olson-Boldereff 'Riot';" "The First Maximus Poem."

#30                  1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference issue, edited by Aaron Vidaver: letters from Warren Tallman to Robert Creeley; "Polis is Eyes" discussion (tape transcription).

#31/32          "Memories of Charles Olson" by Jane Atherton, with family photos, letters from Jane Atherton to Connie Wilcock Bunker.

#33                  Olson's 1928 European trip: letters to his parents.

#34                  "The Fish Weir," a one-act play, Olson's first published piece; Olson and Pound at St. Elizabeths.

#35                  Barbara Guest on Olson in Spoleto (1965); reviews by Simon Jarvis in the TLS; Skip Fox's obituary for Ed Dorn; letter from Clayton Eshleman.

#36/37          "Following Charles Olson in the Yucatan" by Bryant Knox, with photos.

#38                  "Olson's Buffalo" by Michael Boughn, with checklists of Frontier Press and Institute of Further Studies publications; "Tom Clark on 'The Kingfishers'."

#39                  "Specifications for a New Edition of Muthologos;" "Filming in Gloucester," a new transcription of the 1966 NET outtakes videotape.

#40                  Index to issues 1-39.

#41                   Cloud House Poetry Archives and Poetmuseum, San Francisco; "Charles Stein and George Quasha in Vancouver," tape transcription; poem from Clayton Eshleman.

#42                  Louis Douglas photo; French-language Olson bibliography; Joyce Benson in memoriam; "Charles Olson's Archaic Postmodern."

#43                  Tom Clark revisited: commentary on Charles Olson: Allegory of a Poet's Life.

#44                  A Worcester Issue, compiled by Jim Fay, with an essay on the appearances of Olson's home town in his writing.

#45                  "Sunday Drive: A Memoir of Charles Olson," by Ammiel Alcalay; a letter and poem from Peter Tuttle; letter from Vincent Ferrini; "The Flawed Paris Review interview," by Ralph Maud.

#46                  Letter from Clayton Eshleman re. Selected Letters; letters from Olson to Connie (1952), Ron Mason (1953), Gael Turnbull (1957).

#47/48          Olson's Kitchen Issue: "Charles Olson in Gloucester" by Peter Anastas; J.H. Prynne's 1969 review of Maximus IV, V, VI; Paris Review interview full transcription draft, with annotations by Ralph Maud.

#49                  Jean Riboud and Krishna Riboud in memoriam; Charles Olson-Robin Blaser correspondence 1965-69; Jack Clarke's last letter to Tom Clark.

#50                  For Kate Olson (1951-1999), with photos, letters of Charles, Connie and Kate Olson, George Bunker.

#51                   Brian Fawcett's memoir of a "New American Education" at Simon Fraser University; "Bigmans III" (1950) transcript, background materials.

#52                  "Notes on Charles Olson and the Archaic" by Clayton Eshleman.

#53                  Ben Shahn (forthcoming)

#54                  Robin Blaser remembers Don Allen; Olson/Melville: "The Mystery of What Happens When It Happens," a 1950 ms; Berkeley '65 continued.

#55                  Notes from Olson to Ed Sanders, Nov-Dec '65; André Spears remembering Robert Creeley; James Laughlin to Catherine Seelye on Ezra Pound, '74.

#56/57          Robert Payne's publications listed and annotated.

#58                  (forthcoming)

#59/60/61  The missing Olson-Creeley correspondence (83 pieces).

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