Charles Olson History

(Olson, Charles; Sauer, Carl O.; et al). ROOT, BRANCH & MAMMAL: A Monthly Bulletin of Animal Discourse. #1. (Cover title). (Tunbridge, VT): Center For The Study of Cultural Morphology and Mutation, (1970).

- Small quarto [8-1/2 inches wide by 11 inches high], mechanically reproduced pictorial cover sheet & [20] pages, stapled together in the top left corner. The edges of the cover sheet & the last page are darkened & there are small stains to the cover sheet. The bottom corner of the first text page is stained with small stains to the bottom corners of the remaining pages. There is an impression left by a paper clip on the front margins of the text pages. The bulletin has been folded once for mailing. Good only. <p>Only two issues of this bulletin were published. This first issue contains "New Man and Woman" by poet Charles Olson and "Theme of Plant and Animal Destruction in Economic History", a 1938 essay by Carl O. Sauer. Sauer [1889-1975] led the field of cultural geography at the University of California Berkeley, where he taught for over thirty years. Sauer's influence in the field became known as the "Berkeley School" of geography.<p>Scarce.

[SW: NATURAL HISTORY; ECOLOGY; ROOT, BRANCH & MAMMAL; PERIODICAL; BULLETIN OF ANIMAL DISCOURSE; FIRST ISSUE; CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MORPHOLOGY & MUTATION; CHARLES OLSON; CARL O. SAUER.]

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Grossinger, Richard; editor: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook : Volume II: The Mediterranean : Eurasia, North Atlantic Books Plainvfield [VT] (1976)
Series: Io, 23. Contents: Richard Grossinger "Origin of the Human World" (A Chronicle)"; Robert Callahan "Mediterranean Sketyeches"; Grant Fisher "Poems from Seed Son Singal Star"; Lenore Kandel "Dead Billy, dry man, prayer on the wind, seven of velvet"; Kenneth Irby "Selections from the Scandianvian Writings";Tim Reynolds "Poems from 'Qaartsiluni'": Charles Doria "Io" Harvey Bialy " Poem from the African Notebook"; Don Byrd "Desperate Meditations on the End of Kultural History"

orig.wrappers 23x15cm 163 pp Rubbed. Some page-edge spotting. Good.

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Davenport, Guy: The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art, Washington, D.C. Counterpoint 1996
ISBN: 1-887178-24-4 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Wesley B. Tanner/ Passim Editions; Dust Jacket Illustration By Stanley Spencer, 'Swan Upping at Cookham'; Book Composition By Wilsted & Taylor

First Edition. x, 342pp. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, maroon endpapers. Dust jacket price 25.00. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Book and dust jacket appear in fine, unread condition. " Guy [Mattison] Davenport was an American writer, translator, painter, illustrator, intellectual, and teacher. He enrolled at Duke University at age seventeen where he studied classics, English literature, and art; a Rhodes scholar at Merton College Oxford from 1948 to 1950; from 1950-52 he was in the U.S. Army; taught until 1955 at Washington University in St. Louis, then began his Ph.D. at Harvard University; taught at Haverford College from 1961 to 1963; took a position at the University of Kentucky, "the remotest offer with the most pay" where he taught until his retirement at the end of 1990. Davenport's fiction uses three general modes of exposition: The fictionalizing of historical events and figures; the foregrounding of formal narrative experiments, especially in the use of collage; and the depicting of a Fourierist utopia, where small groups of men, women, & children have eliminated the separation between mind and body. His essays ranged from literary to social topics, from small book reviews to lectures such as the title essay for his first collection, 'The Geography of the Imagination'. Davenport was especially passionate about the destruction of the American metropolis by the automobile. Davenport wrote a handful of poems and also translated ancient Greek texts, particularly from the archaic period, the occasional other piece (a few poems of Rilke's, some ancient Egyptian texts [with Boris de Rachewiltz) and, with Benjamin Urrutia, the sayings of Jesus, published as 'The Logia of Yeshua'. He was also a visual artist, and drew or painted every day of his life. His notebooks are filled with drawings, cheek by jowl with his own observations and quotes from others.Davenport was remarkable for the range of his literary and artistic friendships. In addition to Pound, Williams, and Kenner, Davenport knew Louis Zukofsky, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Middleton, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Buckminster Fuller, Eudora Welty, Samuel Delany, Robert Kelly, James Laughlin, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Stan Brakhage, and Ronald Johnson.Two sentences he wrote about his friend and neighbour, Meatyard, apply as well to himself: "He was rare among American artists in that he was not obsessed with his own image in the world. He could therefore live in perfect privacy in a rotting Kentucky town." - wikipedia. " One of or our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - The New York Times. Third essay collection. " As Bruce Bawer wrote in Bookforum, "the late Guy Davenport left behind an oeuvre that is one long lesson in the history of civilization, and to read any part of it -- story, essay, or translation -- is to be enthralled by his unflagging intellectual energy and engagement. "There is no way to prepare yourself for reading Guy Davenport. You stand in awe before his knowledge of the archaic and his knowledge of the modern. Even more, you stand in awe of the connections he can make between the archaic and the modern; he makes the remote familiar and the familiar fundamental." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review. "As a critic, Davenport shines as an intrepid appreciator, an ideal teacher. By preference, he likes to walk the reader through a painting or a poem, teasing out the meaning of odd details, making connections with history and other works of art. His must-have essay collections, 'The Geography of the Imagination' and 'Every Force Evolves a Form', displays his range. With a rainwater clarity, he can write about the naturalistic Louis Aggassiz or ancient poetry and thought . . . He can account for the importance of prehistoric cave art to early modernism or outline the achievements of Joyce and Pound. He can make you yearn to read or look again at neglected masters like the poets Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky and the painters Balthus and Charles Burchfield. He can send you out eagerly searching for C. M. Doughty's six-volume epic poem, 'The Dawn in Britain', and for the works of Ronald Johnson, Jonathan Williams and Paul Metcalf. In all this, his method is nothing other than the deep attentiveness engendered by love; that and a firm faith in simply knowing things. He conveys, to adopt his own words about painter Paul Cadmus, 'a perfect balance of spirit and information.'" -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World. "The author of nearly 30 books of poetry, translation, commentary, and fiction, Davenport announces blithely that this collection of essays and comments "has for a semblance of unity only their being written on the same typewriter." But this will come as no surprise to those familiar with one who invariably presents himself as a willfully minor writer and whose hero is Charles Fourier, the French Utopian Socialist best known for his failed commune, Brook Farm. In the essay "Shaker Light," Davenport explores Shakerism; in "Joyce the Reader," he discusses James Joyce's reading habits; in "II Timothy," he probes Paul's letters. Davenport is what the ancient Greek poet Antolochus would call a fox, or one who knows many things, rather than a hedgehog, who has a single central vision. These writings on Kafka, Darwin, Picasso, Shakers, and snake handlers have more in common than their means of production, however, because each is in its own way brilliant, the stylish work of a master stylist. " - David Kirby, Library Journal. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Olson, Julius E. and Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph.D.. The Northmen Columbus and Cabot Origianl Narratives of Early American History. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
Size=6"x9.5" no Dust Jacket 443pp(Index) Page ends dull, covers bright & a stemped previous owner book- plate inside front cover, o.w. clean & tight. Book is fox free..

1st Edition 1st Printing, Hard Cover, 3 Maps. VG+.

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