Projective Verse by Charles Olson | Poetry Foundation
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PROJECTIVE VERSE[1] (projectile (percussive (prospective ...
Introduction Charles Olson's influential manifesto, "Projective Verse," was first published as a pamphlet, and then was quoted extensively in William Carlos Williams' Autobiography (1951). The essay introduces his ideas of "composition by field" through projective or open verse, which is a continuation of the ideas of poets Ezra Pound, who asked poets to "compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome," and William Carlos Williams, who proposed in 1948 that a poem be approached as a "field of action." Olson's projective verse focuses on "certain laws and possibil
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