The Maximus Poems, IV, V, VI (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Olson
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Long poem
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Sailing or sailors, Anthropology or anthropologists, Fishing or fishermen, Archaeology or archaeologists, Cities or towns, Commerce, Geology or geologists, Poetics, Massachusetts
The key to this second volume of The Maximus Poems, sometimes called Maximus II, is the map that Olson placed on the cover. It is a map of Gondwanaland, the name by which many geographers call the primordial or unified continent that existed before, as Olson put it, “Earth started to come apart at the seams, some 125 million years awhile back and India took off from Africa & migrated to Asia.” In this volume, Olson continues to probe the specific historical information of Gloucester but also moves inland to explore the history and origins of a section of...
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