Charles Olson
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Charles John Olson was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist Ne
Charles Olson
Gravestone of Charles and Betty Olson, Beechbrook Cemetery, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Black Mountain poets
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The Black Mountain poets, also called projectivist poets, were a group of mid-20th-century American avant-garde or postmodern poets based at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Charles Olson
…such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets. The latter includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, and some of the artists and poets associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. Today, Olson remains a central figure of the…
Charles Olson was a primary figure associated with the Black Mountain poets