Projective Verse - Charles Olson (1959)

 
“Charles Olson’s influential manifesto, ‘Projective Verse,’ was first published as a pamphlet, and then was quoted extensively in William Carlos Williams’ Autobiography (1951).  ... Composition by field opposes the traditional method of poetic composition based on received form and measure. Olson sees the challenge of the transference of poetic energy from source to poem to reader, and the way in which that energy shifts at each juncture, as particularly of concern to poets who engage in composition by field, because the poet is no longer relying on a received structure as a propulsive force. ...”

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