Charles Olson: February 21, 1957
The Poetry Center presents Charles Olson reading from The Maximus Poems and other works.
- Originally Recorded By
- The Poetry Center
- Location
- San Francisco Museum of Art
- Date
- 02/21/1957
- Total Run Time
- 00:43:21
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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- Opening remarks (00:00)
- "I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You" (0:21)
- "The Songs of Maximus, Song 1" (04:42)
- "Letter 7" (08:15)
- "Letter 10" (14:29)
- "Letter 14" (18:35)
- Remarks on "Letter 15" (25:25)
- "Letter 15" (26:18)
- Audio cuts out (30:45)
- "The Twist" (31:09)
- Remarks on a poem not included in The Maximus Poems (34:52)
- "Second Century Song" (35:06)
- Remarks on Civil War poem (35:25)
- "Anecdotes of the Late War" (35:41)
- Remarks on "The Loves of Anat, I" series (36:12)
- "The Loves of Anat, I" (36:29)
- Remarks on "O'Ryan 2-4-6-8-10" (36:51)
- "O'Ryan 2" (37:09)
- "O'Ryan 4" (38:02)
- "O'Ryan 6" (38:39)
- "O'Ryan 8" (39:16)
- "O'Ryan 10" (39:38)
- Applause and closing remarks with audience (40:22)
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