Charles Olson was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the language school, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist of morning."
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. morning
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. poetry
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. poetry