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Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside
In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.
The poets and poetry that have followed in the wake of the “projectivist” movement—the Black Mountain group, the New Yo...more
The poets and poetry that have followed in the wake of the “projectivist” movement—the Black Mountain group, the New Yo...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
January 18th 2011
by University Alabama Press
(first published December 5th 2010)
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This prescient, at times brilliant study never jells stylistically until the last eight pages, when Nichols, a British Columbia scholar and the executor of Robin Blaser's estate, puts down her notes and seems almost extemporaneously to speak her conclusions to six chapters, on the poets of the Berkeley Renaissance -- Blaser, Jack Spicer, and Robert Duncan -- as well as on the poets, Charles Olson, who, first appearing in Berkeley in 1949, met Duncan, and Robert Creeley, adding, to grow on, one o...more
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