AbbreviationsFor the convenience of the reader, unless otherwise noted, works originally published separately are cited from their author's collected volumes as abbreviated in the text and listed in the References. | ABC | ABC of Reading, by Ezra Pound | AI | The Anxiety of Influence, by Harold Bloom | AV | Allen Verbatim, by Allen Ginsberg | BB | Bending the Bow, by Robert Duncan | C | The Cantos, by Ezra Pound | CD | Content's Dream, by Charles Bernstein | CE | Collected Essays, by Robert Creeley | COCC | Charles Olson and Cid Corman: Complete Correspondence, 1950–1964, volume 1, edited by George Evans | COEP | Charles Olson and Ezra Pound: An Encounter at St. Elizabeth's, edited by Catherine Seelye | COIP | "Charles Olson and the Inferior Predecessors," by Marjorie Perloff | CON | Contexts of Poetry: Interviews, 1961–1971, by Robert Creeley | CORC | Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, edited by George Butterick | CPD | The Collected Poems, by Edward Dorn | CPO | The Collected Poems, by Charles Olson | CT | Composed on the Tongue, by Allen Ginsberg | FC | Fictive Certainties, by Robert Duncan | GW | Ground Work: Before the War, by Robert Duncan | H | Howl: Original Draft and Facsimile, by Allen Ginsberg | |
― xii ― | I | Interviews, by Edward Dorn | LE | Literary Essays, by Ezra Pound | LO | Letters for Origin, by Charles Olson | MM | A Map of Misreading, by Harold Bloom | MT | Myths and Texts, by Gary Snyder | OF | The Opening of the Field, by Robert Duncan | P | Poems, 1960–1967, by Denise Levertov | PR | Poetry and Repression, by Harold Bloom | PW | The Poet in the World, by Denise Levertov | PZ | Prepositions, by Louis Zukofsky | QG | A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays, by Robert Creeley | S | Slinger, by Edward Dorn | SA | "Staying Alive," in Poems, 1968–1972, by Denise Levertov | SL | Selected Letters, 1907–1941, by Ezra Pound | SP | Selected Prose, 1909–1965, by Ezra Pound | SR | The Spirit of Romance, by Ezra Pound | SVH | The Special View of History, by Charles Olson | SW | Selected Writings, by Charles Olson | SZ | S/Z: An Essay, by Roland Barthes | V | Views, by Edward Dorn | WS | Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, by Harold Bloom | YC | The Years as Catches, by Robert Duncan | |
― xiii ― I suppose if we should take to talking politics to each other I would disagree even more actively than all those others who have disagreed, but there has been no one living during my life time who has been as generous or as pure as you toward literature and toward writers. Nor anyone less generously thanked.
I know of no one who does not owe you a debt.
George Oppen, letter to Ezra Pound
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