Some No Doubt Mainly Personal Refections on The Collected Poems of Charles Olson

I ’ve read a fair amount of the work of Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems (twice), the Selected Writings , which at one point in time was many people’s introduction to Olson’s work, Call Me Ishmael , some essays in the Collected Prose , but although I’ve looked through The Collected Poems of Charles Olson many times and owned it for decades, I’ve never read it cover to cover like I’m doing now (Rod…