Monday, August 30, 2010

Ralph Maud on Olson's "Kingfishers" & Corbin

Ralph Maud has again pointed out Corbin's influence on Charles Olson. In the Epilogue to What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers" (London: Associated University Presses, 1998) he draws attention to a poem dated 11 February 1966 (pp. 501-2 in The Maximus Poems, ed. Butterick, 1983). As he has pointed out before, the story of the Guardians and the Noble Scribes in Corbin's Avicenna book (p. 148 and elsewhere) had considerable importance for Olson. Maud's comments are on pages 130-1 and I offer those pages below. The relevant paragraphs begin "In his twenty-first year as a poet..."
Ralph Maud - What Does Not Change, Pp 130-1.

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