Male : Poet of the "Black Mountain Group"

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Gloucester, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1910 Date of Death : 1971 Age : 61

Other Work : Taught at Clarke University, Worcester, Harvard and Black Mountain College, NC

Education : Wesleyan University, Yale & Harvard

1947-1950
Call Me Ishmael : A Study of Melville (1947 Reynal & Hitchcock, NY) (1967 Cape) - 1st book
Corrado Cagli March 31 Through April 19,1947 (1947)
Projective Verse (1950)
Y & X (1950 US) - C Cagli

1951-1960
Apollonius of Tyana : A Dance with Some Words, for Two Actors (1951)
This (1952 Black Mountain College Press) - Broadside
The Maximus Poems 1-10 (1953 Jonathan Williams, Jargon 7, Stuttgart) (1960)
Mayan Letters (1953) (1968 Cape) - Edited by Robert Creeley
In Cold Hell, In Thicket (1953)
Ferrini and Others (1955) - et al
Anecdotes of the Late War (1955)
The Maximus Poems 11-22 (1956 Williams, Stuttgart)
O'Ryan 2 4 6 8 10 (1958)
[Enlarged as] "O'Ryan 12345678910" (1965)
Projective Verse (1959)
The Distances : Poems (1960 Grove Press / Evergreen)
The Maximus Poems (1960) (nd.Cape Goliard)
The Special View of History (1960 Oyez, Berkeley)

1961-1966
Maximus from Dogtown - 1 (1961 Auerhahn, SF)
Signature to Petition on Ten Pound Island Asked of Me by Mr Vincent Ferrini (1964)
A Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn (1964)
Proprioception (1965 Four Seasons, SF)
Human Universe and Other Essays (1965) - Edited by Donald Allen
West (1966 Cape GP)
Stocking Cap : A Story (1966)
Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley (1966) - Edited by Zoe Brown
Selected Writings (1966) - Edited by Robert Creeley

1967-1970
Before Your Very Eyes ! (1967) - et al
Maximus Poems IV, V, VI (1968 Cape Goliard Press 30/-)
Mayan Letters (1968 Cape)
Reading About My World (1968)
Pleistocene Man : Letters from Olson to John Clarke During October 1965 (1968)
Added to Making a Republic (1968)
Clear Shifting Water (1968)
Then There was a Woman in Gloucester, Massachusetts (1968)
Wholly Absorbed in My Own Conduits (1968)
Casual Mythology (1969 - Four Seasons pb, SF) (1970 Hb)
Letters for 'Origin' 1950-1956 (1969 Cape Goliard Press) - Edited by Albert Glover
The Archaeologist of Morning : Collected Poems Outside the Maximus Series (1970 Cape GP 70/-)
The Special View of History (1970) - Edited by Ann Charters

After 1971
Poetry and Truth : The Beloit Lectures & Poems (1971) - Edited by George F Butterick
Additional Prose (1974) - Edited by George F Butterick
The Maximus Poems : Vol 3 (1975) - Edited by Charles Boer & G F Butterick
The Post Office : A Memoir of His Father (1975)
Olson and Ezra Pound : An Encounter at St Elizabeth's (1975) - Edited by Catherine Seelye
Muthologos : The Collected Lectures and Interviews (1976) - Edited by George F Butterick
The Fiery Hunt & Other Plays (1977) (1978)
Some Early Poems (1978 Windhover, Iowa City) - 300
The Complete Correspondence : Vol 6 (1985 Black Sparrow) - with Robert Creeley
The Collected Poems (1987 California UP)
A Nation of Nothing But Poetry : Supplementary Poems (1989 Black Sparrow) - 126

READING
George F Butterick & Albert Glover : A Bibliography of the Works of Charles Olson (1967)
Paul Christensen : Charles Olson - Call Him Ishmael (1978 Texas UP)
George F Butterick : A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson (1978)
Robert von Hallberg : Charles Olson - The Scholar's Art (1978 Harvard UP)