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Aonghas MacNeacail's English Language Poems Reviewed

An edited (shorter) version of this review first appeared in Poetry Salzberg Review in June 2025. Many thanks to the editor, Wolfgang Görtschacher, for commissioning the writing of it. It is as a poet writing in Gaelic that MacNeacail – who died in 2022 – is most well-known, though he would himself provide translations of his work into English, what, in the poem ‘last night’, he refers to as…

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Harmonie post-logique (On a pas assez remarqué que le logos, et la raison qui lui est nécessaire, sont, pour l’homme, une étape à dominer, et pas ce qu’on les considère être, la discipline ultime. Après eux est la perception directe et les contraires qui périment le raisonnement. L’harmonie de l’univers, l’homme inclus, n’est pas logique, ou mieux elle est post-logique, comme l’ordre de n’importe quelle chose crée.) Avec Aristote apparaissent les deux grandes formules : logique et classification, et c’est elle qui se sont aussi bien amarrées aux habitudes qui entravent l’action, qui l’entravent absolument, dirais-je.

Charles Olsen, Commencements, “L’univers humain”.

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“L’UNIVERS du discours”. C’est leur mot et le refuge de tous les métaphysiciens après eux – comme si le langage, lui aussi, était un absolu, au lieu (comme l’homme) d’être un instrument, inapte à être étendu, quel qu’en soit le besoin, pour couvrir ce sur quoi l’homme et le langage, reposent : ce que nous partageons, et qui suffit, de pouvoir et de beauté, sans nécessité d’outrer les mots, et particulièrement ce diffusible, l'”univers”. Car le discours est à peine, ou alors arbitrairement seulement, un univers. Dans tous les cas, ainsi étendu (la part belle étant faite au logos et pas à la parole vivante), le discours s’est arrogé une bonne part d’expérience à quoi il n’eût pas dû toucher – et qui doit maintenant être rendue aux deux seuls univers qui comptent, les univers phénoménaux, ceux sur lesquels l’homme doit se porter parce qu’ils portent sur lui : le sien, en tant qu’organisme, et celui de son environnement, la terre et les planètes”.

charles olsen, Commencements, “Univers humain”

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2 love is form, and cannot be without   important substance (the weight say, 58 carats each one of us, perforce   our goldsmith’s scale

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You, Charles Olson

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It comes to this: the use of a man, by himself and thus by others, lies in how he conceives his relation to nature, that force to which he owes his somewhat small existence. If he sprawl, he will find little to sing but himself, and shall sing, nature has such paradoxical ways, by way of artificial forms outside himself. But if he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share. And by an inverse law his shapes will make their own way. It is in this sense that the projective act, which is the artist’s act in the larger field of objects, leads to a dimension larger than the man.

Charles Olsen, Projective Verse

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Conoce al tándem artístico Antena Blue

#Getafe Anverso y Re-Verso presenta el proyecto poético Antena Blue con @lilianauta y @Charles_Olsen ¡Escucha!

Nuestro espacio poético nos presenta a este tándem artístico compuesto por la leona tribal y huracanada, Lilian Pallares y por el halcón maorí y silencioso, Charles Olsen GETAFE/ 15 NOVIEMBRE 2016/ En la edición del mes de noviembre de Anverso y Re-verso en Getafe Radio, acudieron a nuestra llamada el tándem artístico Antena Blue, compuesto por  Lilian Pallares y  Charles Olsen. Ambos vienen de…

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To tell you the truth, I think both Pound and Eliot were after something rather different than us who came a little later, like myself, hip hip hip. All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing—a cool thing which is like a river for the tiger of the river. To say it in language is like hard as hell. The greatest poetry profile that was made this side or the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is called the anacreontic award and I hereby now make it and it’s pre-amanquiantic and it is absolutely way down below Atlantis and it has got no end, no end because it is like the stock of heaven and creation and it hasn’t even been booed or had a crown yet, but it exists. And I know where it’s playing—and I know where it is planted and I know where it is and we all do too, and we all know what we’re talking about, because it is down on the plantation under the trunk of that large cypress tree in all that goo way down there in that rain swamp . . .

Charles Olsen responding to the question "What is the distinction between your usage of the technique of quotation and that of Pound?" in a Paris Review interview

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shall you uncover honey / where maggots are?

--Charles Olsen, The Kingfishers