The Maximus Poems / 1-10. [with]: The Maximus Poems / 11-22

Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1953 and 1956.

Price: $2,000.00

Softcover. First edition. Two volumes. Quarto. Introduction by Robert Creeley laid in as issued. Calligraphic covers by Jonathan Williams. Issued as *Jargon 7* and *Jargon 9*. The first volume is fine in stiff wrappers, in the original publisher's paper outer wrapping paper stamped "Olson. Poems" and is one of 300 copies; the second volume is very good in stiff wrappers with three small tears and a thin horizontal stain on the front wrap, and a split at the bottom of the flap fold, and is one of 350 copies.

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Item #284328 The Maximus Poems / 1-10. [with]: The Maximus Poems / 11-22. Charles OLSON.
The Maximus Poems / 1-10. [with]: The Maximus Poems / 11-22

Charles Olson
birth name: Charles John Olson
born: 12/27/1910
died: 1/10/1970
nationality: USA

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Avant-garde poet and literary theorist, notable for his influence on American poetry during the late 1950s. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore