What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers'

By Ralph Maud

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611471494
• ISBN13: 9781611471496
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 176 Pages