Category: Poet

Charles Olson @ 100

tesserae commissure [written Jan 19th 1962; one of my very favorite Olson poems [audio:https://pierrejoris.com/blog/audio/OlsonTesserae.mp3] from Olson’s reading at Goddard College, transcript here: ” tesserae commissure UV: What is “tesserae”? CO: Yea. The little pieces...

Olson’s Tombstone Blues

An email in my inbox this rainy morning led me to the site with the following press release. Thought I’d pass it on: For Immediate Release                                                   Dead Poets Society of America Contact Walter Skold: ...

Pastior’s Letter of Commitment

In Oskar Pastior‘s Bucharest Securitate-dossier (R 249.556) the following hand-written and -signed letter of commitment of 8 June 1961 was found — of course we do not know exactly under what threats to life...