{"id":5587,"date":"2010-12-27T11:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2010-12-28T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T19:39:11","slug":"charles-olson-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/charles-olson-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Olson @ 100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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tesserae<\/span>\r\n\r\n\t\tcommissure\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
[written Jan 19th 1962; one of my very favorite Olson poems<\/p>\n
[audio:https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/audio\/OlsonTesserae.mp3]<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n
from Olson’s reading at Goddard College, transcript here<\/a>:<\/p>\n
”
\ntesserae<\/p>\n
commissure<\/p>\n
UV: What is “tesserae”?<\/p>\n
CO: Yea. The little pieces that are used in making a mosaic. They are tesserae, the, the\u2014all those little pieces
\nof stone and glass and color.<\/p>\n
UV: And the other word?<\/p>\n
CO: “Commissure,” which means, uh, bound together. But it’s ah\u2014<\/p>\n
UV: Could you read it again?<\/p>\n
CO: Yea:<\/p>\n
tesserae<\/p>\n
commissure<\/p>\n
CO: The “tesserae” is underlined, is a foreign word, and “commissure” \u2014actually they\u2019re both in the Webster’s book, but I don’t know if “tesserae” is. That\u2019s really kind of a run, move now, it moves now differently. In fact it kind of breaks a little bit. I, I\u2019ll read you the next poem, but the one beyond it I haven\u2019t been able to write. It’s very bad, you see, and you really get stuck, you really get stuck. Twenty-one: [Reads Maximus II.100] …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[830,1],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poet","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-olson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}