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A Discrete Gloss. Typescript Poem, signed (“Olson”), Typed Letter, signed (“Charles”) to Mary and [Bernhard] Knollie Knollenberg.
Black Mountain College: Jan. 18, 1952.
Published: Origin 6 Summer 1952), pp. 119-121. Poem 2 pages, rectos only; Letter 2 pages on a signle sheet. 4to. Fine. With envelope postmarked Black Mountain, N.C., Jan. 19, 1952 Item #324430
In what sense is
what happens before the eye
so very different from
what actually goes on within
Charles Olson (1910-1970) sends his friends Bernhard and Mary Knollenberg his newly completed poem, A Discrete Gloss, begun in Lerma, Yucatan, in June 1951 and completed at Black Mountain College in January 1952, with a long discursive letter ranging from Black Mountain and Asheville (“12 miles, & only place where liquor is sold”) to the prospect of a return to Yucatan on an “ethnological-anthropological expedition to Lerma this summer”, with digressions on rewriting and politics and reading lists. Bernhard Knollenberg was a lawyer and Revolutionary War historian; Mary Knollenberg was a sculptor.
The typescript of the poem is headed “For Mary & Knollie K”. A Discrete Gloss was published later the same year in Cid Corman’s Origin.
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