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• 安価だが内容は、プライスレス

  これは、カリフォルニア大学出版局が出している、安価だが大変値打ちのある書籍のひとつです。 1980年代には、同じ出版局から、ひとまわり大きなサイズのペーパーバックが出ていました。 これは、そのひとまわり小さな版です。持ち歩くにはこちらの方が便利です。 大きな版はもう出版されていないので、この版で我慢するしかないのも確かです。 有名だが読まれていない本のひとつです。一読をお勧めします。 紙の質もよく、製本も間違いありません。

• I bought this book for a friend who requested it. It came in pristine condition and has given much satisfaction. Thank you.

• Olson's story of Glouster unearths the rich life, buried and otherwise lost at sea. The people, their struggles with the sea, with commerce and with undone things he speaks of this morning are well worth reading many times over.

• if i told you where if first saw this poetry volume you won't believe me :-) usually my attention to new or other authors comes from books or authors i've previously read or on occasion on a friend's recommendation. however, watching the movie "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home" on DVD i saw this book among a stack of papers on Izzy Young's desk during him being interviewed. pageing through it at first glance one detects a couple of blank pages and one thinks 'whatta cheat?'. on scrutinizing the contents further one finds that Charles Olson not only wrote the poetry, but was also being very particular about the publication of his writings, and the setting up of the same. i personal seem to prefer his later poetry writings. as an author he's completely new to me and finds his marked place among my modern american poets and writers. JohPWilbrand

• This is Olson's masterwork. A visionary epic about both the history of continents and the history of Gloucester, Massachusetts, written in an increasingly fragmentary and notational Indo-European cosmic vernacular. Olson wrote the thing on the backs of torn envelopes, on napkins, scraps of paper, or wandering around the midnight streets of Gloucester or Gloucester's weird underbelly, Dogtown. It, like Joyce's Wake or Pound's Cantos, will take scholars many years to unravel the layers herein, but you should give it a try, and let the majestic scale of its music be a lesson in attention, and seeing with one's eyes.

• My daughter, a lit major specialized in post-Modernist poetry, requested this as a Christmas present. She is really enjoying it!

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