Open Map : The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson [Paperback]

The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after Robert Duncan and Charles Olson first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970.Robert J. Bertholf(1940-2016) served as the curator of the Poetry Collection at the University of Buffalo for twenty-five years. He was the author and editor of numerous books, including several about Robert Duncan and his work.

Dale M. Smithis a professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is author and coeditor of several other books, includingAn Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson(UNM Press).Invaluable archival documents. . . . Bertholf and Smith also supply a strong accounting of the context of Olson and Duncan's correspondence in their introduction toAn Open Map.--Eric Keenaghan,Journal of Modern LiteratureAn essential correspondence between two [of] the most innovative and visionary poets in American literature. In these letters is contained the generative energies of some of the best poetry written in the twentieth century.--Peter O'Leary, author ofGnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of IllnessAn essential correspondence between two [of] the most innovative and visionary poets in American literature. In these letters is contained the generative energies of some of the best poetry written in the twentieth century.--Peter O'Leary, author ofGnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness