Table of Contents

Introduction: Beginning Again
1: The New Failure of Nerve
2: From the Barricade to the Bedroom
3: Uninhabited Kingdoms, New Worlds of Space
4: Thrown Down Glyphs
5: Difficulties of Discovery
6: Egocentric Predicaments
7: Maximus: The Practice of the Self
Bibliography

About the Author

Mark Byers received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on late modernist poetry and poetics, literary archives, and textual studies. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archives and Poetry at Newcastle University.

Reviews

Byers situates Olson's work in its broad artistic context, thus undertaking a task that had previously never been properly undertaken. Byers has now devoted an entire study to it -- indeed, a necessary study, as his ample findings reveal ... Byers thus offers a well-written and balanced study in the burgeoning field of Olson Studies, while contributing to the history of postwar aesthetics.
*Philipp Reisner, Amerikastudien*