John Faulise studied under George F. Butterick at the University of Connecticut (B.A. 1973) and contributed to his A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson (California, 1983), and as a graduate student at SUNY Binghamton (M.A. 1975) was an assistant to the editor for Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature’s special Olson issue. He is a recipient of a Charles Olson Award from Simon Fraser University, and he was instrumental in the creation of the Maud/Olson Library at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was invited by Ralph Maud to join him as co-editor of The Special View of History, and after Ralph’s death he brought the project to completion. He is currently at work editing the correspondence of Charles Olson and George F. Butterick.