The Olson Codex: Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs

by Dennis Tedlock

This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. Olson spent six months in the Yucatan in 1951 studying Maya culture and language, an interlude that has been largely overlooked by students of his work. Like Olson and Robert Creeley, Olson's disciple who published Olson's letters from Mexico, the poet Dennis Tedlock taught at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826357180
• ISBN13: 9780826357182
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.9" x 9.0"