← Charles OlsonCollected Poemsby Charles OlsonFind on Amazon↗About the authorCharles OlsonAmerican poet and theorist whose essay Projective Verse proposed an open field poetics and whose Maximus Poems is the major long poem of the Black Mountain School. He was rector of Black Mountain College.More by Charles OlsonThe Maximus PoemsEpic historical poem tracing the etymology and geography of Gloucester, Massachusetts→In Cold Hell In Thicket→The DistancesCollection emphasizing concrete particularity, place, and historical documentation→