Taking its title from the first line of Charles Olson's poem "The Kingfishers," this book provides a full-scale exegesis of that milestone poem in postwar. American literature. Maud demonstrates that this poem is to crucial to understanding Olson's development that a study of it takes one into every aspect of Olson's early life and thought. This long-awaited explication (Guy Davenport announced its existence its existence and anticipated its importance in 1985) removes what has been an obstacle in the path of further study of Olson.
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Everything you might possibly want to know about "The Kingfishers"-the circumstances of its composition, its evolution through various drafts, the sources of its allusions-can be found in Ralph Maud's exhaustive What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers." Social Theory and Practice
Ralph Maud is a professor emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University.
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