Polaroid photo by Elsa Dorfman
photo from the Olson archives at the University of Connecticut
As part of a panel discussion in 2003, we asked Robert Creeley to read and comment upon one of his favorite poems. It was no surprise when he selected a poem by his great friend and comrade, Charles Olson. Creeley reads passages from his introduction to Olson’s Selected Poems, and reads the latter half of Olson’s “Maximus, to Gloucester,” which concludes:
John White had seen it
in his eye
but fourteen men
of whom we know eleven
twenty-two eyes
and the snow flew
where gulls now paper
the skies
where fishing continues
and my heart lies
From KWLS 2003: The Beautiful Changes
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