1. Olson Then: A Necessary Clearing<\/p>\n
A succinct summing up of Olson\u2019s place in poetry was given on the back cover of Ralph Maud\u2019s corrective biography of Olson, entitled Charles Olson at the Harbor. After suggesting that Olson was \u201cwithout question the most influential of the \u2018New American Poets\u2019 published by Grove Press in the mid-twentieth century,\u201d the blurb states: “Synthesizing the experimental avant-garde of the Black Mountain School with the uncompromising existentialism of the Beat Generation; the new structuralism of the San Francisco Renaissance; and heralding the postmodern deconstructionism of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets; his spirit, mind and intellect are ubiquitous in late twentieth century poetry”.<\/p>\n
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To read this article click here:\u00a0Pierre Joris: Olson Now<\/a><\/p>\n Born in 1946 in Strasbourg, France, raised in Luxembourg,\u00a0Pierre Joris<\/strong>\u00a0has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50\u00a0years, publishing close to 50\u00a0books of poetry, essays, anthologies, plays and translations. \u00a0In 1992 he returned to New York, first the state, where he\u00a0taught poetry & poetics at SUNY-Albany until 2012, \u00a0but also, since 2008, the city \u2014 happily humming Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m going back to New York City, I believe I\u2019ve had enough\u2026\u201d. When not on the road (see the \u201cEvents Calendar\u201d page on his blog:\u00a0Nomadics<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or on his website:\u00a0pierrejoris.com<\/span><\/a>), he\u00a0lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn \u2014 baptized\u00a0Sorrentinostan by him \u2014 with his wife, painter, singer & multimedia performance artist\u00a0Nicole\u00a0Peyrafitte.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. Olson Then: A Necessary Clearing A succinct summing up of Olson\u2019s place in poetry was given on the back cover of Ralph Maud\u2019s corrective biography of Olson, entitled Charles Olson at the Harbor. After suggesting that Olson was \u201cwithout question the most influential of the \u2018New American Poets\u2019 published by Grove Press in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[53,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/black-mountain-junction-box-5_edited-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1pu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}