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The fact that Boas paid Tate for his stories by the page, and furthermore instructed Tate specifically on what stories, and even on what kinds of stories he was to gather and submit, created a profoundly unequal relationship between these two men, which resulted in an inevitable and pre-determined \"authentication\" of the Native material by the European ethnographer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTransmission Difficulties\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds like a gripping, real-life mystery story. 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His archaeology of language unearthed classical sources and aboriginal, principally Mayan, cultures within the history of European colonialism and resulted in an absolute insistence that the public value of the human imagination is inseparable from the particulars of both the time and place of its origins and composition.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His reputation tarnished and his poetry misread 20 years after his death in Tom Clark's carelessly biased 1991 biography, \u003ci\u003eCharles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Olson and his work have been diminished in the study of poetics since Clark's creation of his grotesque caricature of this great American poet as a young hustler who he irresponsibly and falsely claims became a defeated and pathetic old man in his later years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eCharles Olson at the Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Ralph Maud, a longtime Olson scholar, friend and correspondent, finally sets the record straight, insisting that Olson was as careful with his genius as any young man could be; that he achieved critical success as a Melville scholar; that his \"projective verse\" established an undeniable and lasting sea change in poetic thought around the world; and that he eschewed success of the ordinary kind to create a new restorative stance in the polis that can take us into a different future--all reflected in a large body of poetry that the world can no longer ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51296003686673,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51296003784977,"sku":"GOR012623008","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52330591158545,"sku":"NIN9780889225763","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52902740263185,"sku":"NLS9780889225763","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0889225761.jpg?v=1750787427"},{"product_id":"colour-of-saying-book-ralph-maud-9780460010689","title":"The Colour of Saying","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51402928292113,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51402928357649,"sku":"GOR003659873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0460010689.jpg?v=1750782394"},{"product_id":"porcupine-hunter-and-other-stories-book-ralph-maud-9780889223332","title":"The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories","description":"Henry W. 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