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After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff
After Completion The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff Author:Frances Boldereff, Charles Olson After Completion: The Later Letters between modern American poet Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff (a typographer and James Joyce scholar) opens in September 1950, following a crisis that amounted to a "completion" of the major phase of their relationship. The 140 letters in this volume present a passionate relationship realized mostly in corr... more »espondence?one that was ultimately vital to Olson's working out of his projectivist poetics. Unique among Olson's correspondents, Boldereff embodied the interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, and critic, and through her interaction with him had an incalculable effect on twentieth-century poetry.Sharon Thesen is a professor in the faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia.Ralph Maud, a leading Olson scholar, is professor emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University.« less