← Charles OlsonThe Distancesby Charles OlsonCollection emphasizing concrete particularity, place, and historical documentationFind 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→Collected Poems→