{"product_id":"after-completion-the-later-letters-9780889227064","title":"After Completion: The Later Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Olson had many correspondents over the years, but Frances Boldereff, a book designer and typographer, Joyce scholar, and single working mother, embodied a dynamic complexity of interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, critic, and amanuensis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff\u003c\/em\u003e follows on from an earlier edition, \u003cem\u003eCharles Olson and Frances Boldereff\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eA Modern Correspondence\u003c\/em\u003e, that spans three years and more than three hundred letters. Published in 1999 by Wesleyan University Press, that edition concludes with a crisis that amounted to a \"completion\" of one of the major phases of their relationship. After September 1950, no longer would Boldereff believe so wholeheartedly in Olson's work - or in his promises to spend time with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Completion\u003c\/em\u003e picks up the correspondence post-crisis, and consists of letters written between 1950 and 1969 - approximately 140 letters over a nineteen-year span. In this period of the correspondence, we witness the intensity of the letters flare intermittently, sometimes explosively, as Olson and Boldereff try to maintain some continuity in their separateness. In these later letters, we also experience their magnificent mutual embracing of Arthur Rimbaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence taken as a whole presents a passionate relationship realized mostly in letters - letters that were to become essential to Olson's working out of his poetics. Boldereff's interventions, which provoked Olson to articulate a projectivist poetics, claims for Frances Boldereff an incalculable effect on twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889227064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Charles Olson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604384215221,"sku":"9780889227064","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/after-completion-the-later-letters-9780889227064","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}