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 so 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 and anticipated its importance in 1985) removes what has been an obstacle in the path of further study of Olson.
- ISBN10 1611471494
- ISBN13 9781611471496
- Publish Date 1 March 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English