Publisher:
New York, Paragon House: 1990
First edition. Surface tears on rear jacket panel obscuring some text. Minor highlighting and underlining in Introduction. 1990 Hard Cover. xxiv, 231 pp. Begun in rapt affection in 1936, ending two decades later in bitter vituperation, the correspondence between Edward Dahlberg ( Can These Bones Live ) and Charles Olson ( The Maximus Poems ) presents an entertaining display of literary fireworks, edited and annotated by a professor at Texas A & M University. Both writers distrusted the Anglo-American literary tradition as a product of imperialism. Poet-essayist Olson found mythic inspiration i...
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