I. Notes for the proposition: man is prospective / Charles Olson
Definitions by undoings / Charles Olson
II. I remember Olson / Albert Cook
Spiritus ubi vult spirat: on Charles Olson / William Moebius
Hanging on for dear life / John Wieners
Poetry and truth: the Beloit Lectures and poems / Frank Davey
Charles Olson and the vatic / William Aiken
III. The possibility of measure in Olson's maximus / Don Byrd
Melville: to him, Olson / Martin Pops
Olson, Whitehead & the Objectivists / Robert von Hallberg
Olson and D.H. Lawrence: the aesthetics of the "Primitive abstract" / Egbert Faas
Pound, Olson, and the classical tradition / Charles Doria
Charles Olson & Carl Sauer: towards a methodology of knowing / O.J. Ford
IV. Charles Olson: preliminary images / Katharine R. Stimpson
Olson's poetics and the tradition / Chalres Altieri
Charles Olson: mythologist of history / William McPheron
Materials for a nexus / mMatthew Corrigan
V. Righting the balance: the distances / Robert Bertholf
Scholia and conjectures for Olson's "The kingfishers" / Guy Davenport
"The praises" / maxine Apsel
Number, image, sortilege: a short analysis of "The moon is number 18" / Richard Ingber
The poet as archaeologist / Matthew Corrigan
VI. Olson's Maximus and the way to knowledge / L.S. Dembo
Six readings of Olson's Maximus / Frank Davey
Noticing "Juan de la Cosa" / Daniel G. Hise
"Gravel Hill" / John Scoggan
Charles: language, time and person / Cory Greenspan
VII. First round of letters / Charles Olson, Joyce Benson
