William Olsen's newest work is the harbinger of a new wave of American poetry. His poems are a rich, dense, and polished example of the voice of a strong new poet.
William Olsen's newest work is the harbinger of a new wave of American poetry. His poems are a rich, dense, and polished example of the voice of a str...
William Olsen's newest work is the harbinger of a new wave of American poetry. His poems are a rich, dense, and polished example of the voice of a strong new poet.
William Olsen's newest work is the harbinger of a new wave of American poetry. His poems are a rich, dense, and polished example of the voice of a str...
Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago to the outposts of Cornwall and Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in small details. An urgency inhabits his poems as they lament and protest a pandemic disrespect for all things natural and the replacement of such with material progress. It is his distinct awe for our universe that offers hope for retrieving all that is being lost.
Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago to the outposts of Cornwall and Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in small d...
Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the outposts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. An urgency inhabits his poems as they lament and protest a pandemic disrespect for all things natural and the replacement of such with material progress. Olsen seeks to make a truly substantial inquiry into human existence, which leads him to test the adequacy of language. Filling his verses with a dazzling language that challenges, transports, questions, and intoxicates, he thus creates a genuine...
Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the outposts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for...
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nature of human language. Drawing surprising and illuminating connections between the political and historical, the prosaic and the personal, civilization and nature, these poems try to make sense of the individual s experience of time, memory, and society. The range of Olsen s images form an organic connection between the physical and the abstract and his hypnotic mixture of colloquial and eloquent...
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, an...
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nature of human language. Drawing surprising and illuminating connections between the political and historical, the prosaic and the personal, civilization and nature, these poems try to make sense of the individual s experience of time, memory, and society. The range of Olsen s images form an organic connection between the physical and the abstract and his hypnotic mixture of colloquial and eloquent...
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, an...
The poems in Sand Theory, William Olsen s fifth collection to date, bristle with intellect, sensitivity, and ambition. Engaging poets from William Blake to Theodore Roethke, Olsen takes aim at grand questions of spirituality, the instability of meaning, and the individual s relationship with the natural world. Yet Olsen s lithe and sinuous poems wear their metaphysical concerns lightly, shifting easily between the immediate perceptions of a passing moment and observations offered as if from a great distance, outside of time and space. The energy of Olsen s poems is generated by his...
The poems in Sand Theory, William Olsen s fifth collection to date, bristle with intellect, sensitivity, and ambition. Engaging poets from William Bla...
