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Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life
Charles Olson The Allegory of a Poet's Life Author:Tom Clark Charles Olson (1910-1970) was a mass of contradictions - at once egalitarian and elitist, as desperate for the love of a devoted woman as he was haunted by homosexual urges, a lapsed Catholic who eventually drifted into Islamic mysticism and Sumerian studies. In this provocative biography of a poet both feared and revered, Tom Clark shows how th... more »ese conflicts troubled Olson's life even as it fueled his art.« less