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For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an understanding of his definition of the postmodern, and through the play of mind exhibited here we recognize him as one of the vital thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume, edited and annotated by Ralph Maud, we see Olson at the height of his powers and also at his most human. Nearly 200 letters, selected from a known 3,000, demonstrate the wide range of Olson's interests and the depth of his concern for the future. Maud includes letters to friends and loved ones, job and grant applications, letters of recommendation, and Black Mountain College business letters, as well as correspondence illuminating Olson's poetics. As we read through the letters, which span the years from 1931, when Olson was an undergraduate, to his death in 1970, a fascinating portrait of this complex poet and thinker emerges.

Poets, American --- Olson, Charles, --- 20th century. --- aesthetics. --- albert erskine. --- allen ginsberg. --- anne bosshard. --- barbara denny. --- black mountain college. --- correspondence. --- david ignatow. --- donald sutherland. --- edward dahlberg. --- ezra pound. --- fulbright. --- guggenheim. --- john berryman. --- john finch. --- jung. --- letters. --- maximus poems. --- memoir. --- merce cunningham. --- nonfiction. --- peter anastas. --- poetics. --- postmodern. --- projective verse. --- rhodes scholarship. --- stieglitz. --- van wyck brooks. --- vincent ferrini. --- waldo frank. --- wilbert snow. --- william carlos williams.

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This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work in the 1970's. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work-at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan's quest toward a new poetics-is at last complete and available to a wide audience.

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A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker EvansWalker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of people and the damage of the long Civil War. In Walker Evans, renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers explores how Evans made his distinctive photographs. Delving into a lavish selection of Evans’s work, Alpers uncovers rich parallels between his creative approach and those of numerous literary and cultural figures, locating Evans within the wide context of a truly international circle.Alpers demonstrates that Evans’s practice relied on his camera choices and willingness to edit multiple versions of a shot, as well as his keen eye and his distant straight-on view of visual objects. Illustrating the vital role of Evans’s dual love of text and images, Alpers places his writings in conversation with his photographs. She brings his techniques into dialogue with the work of a global cast of important artists—from Flaubert and Baudelaire to Elizabeth Bishop and William Faulkner—underscoring how Evans’s travels abroad in such places as France and Cuba, along with his expansive literary and artistic tastes, informed his quintessentially American photographic style.A magisterial account of a great twentieth-century artist, Walker Evans urges us to look anew at the act of seeing the world—to reconsider how Evans saw his subjects, how he saw his photographs, and how we can see his images as if for the first time.

Photography, Artistic --- Documentary photography --- fotografie --- Verenigde Staten --- documentaire fotografie --- twintigste eeuw --- Evans Walker --- landschapsfotografie --- portretfotografie --- 77.071 EVANS --- Artistic photography --- Photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Aesthetics --- Evans, Walker, --- Evans, Walker --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Photography, Artistic. --- Photography / Individual Photographers / Artists' Books. --- African 1935 sculpture exhibition. --- Alabama tenant farmers. --- American photographs. --- Belinda Rathbone. --- Berenice Abbott. --- Bob Dylan. --- Century Association. --- Charles Baudelaire. --- Civil War. --- Clement Cheroux. --- Clement Greenberg. --- Cuba. --- David Campany. --- Edmund Wilson. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Eugene Atget. --- Fortune. --- France. --- Fred Astaire. --- Gustave Flaubert. --- Henri Cartier-Bresson. --- James Agee. --- James Mellow. --- John Szarkowski. --- John T. Hill. --- Lawrence Gowing. --- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. --- Lincoln Kirstein. --- Luc Sante. --- Lyric Documentary. --- MOMA. --- Man Ray. --- Museum of Modern Art. --- Nicéphore Niépce. --- Paul Cezanne. --- Swing Time. --- Time Inc. --- Vicksburg National Military Park. --- W. S. Hartshorn. --- William Carlos Williams. --- William Faulkner. --- Yale. --- abstraction. --- daguerreotype. --- documentary photography. --- minstrelsy. --- passenger portraits. --- polaroid SX 70. --- subway portraits. --- surrealism. --- transcendence. --- white tenant farmers.