Panel text reads:
I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU
By ear, he sd.
But that which matters, that which insists, that which will last
where shall you find it, my people, how, where shall you listen
when all is become billboards, when all, even silence
when even the gulls,
my roofs,
when even you, when sound itself
I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU
By ear, he sd.
But that which matters, that which insists, that which will last
where shall you find it, my people, how, where shall you listen
when all is become billboards, when all, even silence
when even the gulls,
my roofs,
when even you, when sound itself
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By ear, he sd.
But that which matters, that which insists, that which will last
where shall you find it, my people, how, where shall you listen
when all is become billboards, when all, even silence is
when even the gulls,
my roofs,
When even you, when sound itself
Where, Portygee Hill, she sang
and over the water, at Tarr’s
THE MAXIMUS POEMS
1-10
Charles Olson (OK)
For
Jonathan, Publisher
STRASBOURG
1953
Who made it into such a book!
November 1953
j o n a -
t h a n !
monday november 23 53
Shipment in - and w o w:
(50 Author’s; 75 Regulars; plus cbr [sic]- a Very Special Package in Japanese rect? Or some Such Modern Equivalent Con- ((cf below, Number 7)
d e e -
Lishus
Number 1: you must take steps to present both editions for the competition of the Am Graphics Inst (isn’t it?) for the 50 (or is 100) best ya-ya of the hear-hear! (Closing date for competition is, I am sure, Decmeber [sic] 31st - but do check, & do put in. For i [sic] can’t see how they get anything like it. Just like of that two-page title-page spread, the type, and the round-O ((and aren’t you yrself [sic] damned pleased with JW Pub StuttGART???)))
Number 2: total sales as of this moment:
14 of Author’s (mostly mail orders from card, two buyers here, Fiores and Williamses)
12 of Trade
Number 3: if they are still distinguishable, cld you let me have a list of those (you sd they were fr my mailing) who ordered the Trade through yr box at Highlands? (Just so I see who, of my own personal lists, [...])
Charles Olson, August, 1951, South Lodge, Black Mountain College, working on The Maximus Poems, Photograph by Jonathan Williams
Xerox of page 1 of the typescript of The Maximus Poems/ 1-10.
Setting by Dr. Walter Cantz’sche Buchdruckerei, Cannstatt, bei Stuttgart, 1953.
Inscription on the manuscript to JW from Olson for the publication of The Maximus Poems/1-10. Olson got it wrong. I went to Stuttgart, not Strasbourg. More spätzle and less foie gras. No matter. Some of the best printers in Germany.
Letter from Olson to JW in response to shipment of The Maximus Poems/1-10.
Xeroxes: Courtesy of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo. With particular thanks from JW to Michael Basinski, Wendy Kramer, et al.
Artwork: 1995.67.1
Olson & The Maximus Poems
This work was created for the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams, Olson & The Maximus Poems, 1995. Photographs and photocopied paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
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