SECRET OF THE BLACK CHRYSANTHEMUM (The Clinamen Studies Series)

This is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket price of $27.50 by Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY 12507 in 1987. Reissued as a paperback in 1997. The complete title is "Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum: The Poetic Cosmology of Charles Olson and His Use of The writings of C. G. Jung including an annotated facsimile of Olson's last text." This text explores Charles Olson's visionary poetics and the extensive use he made of the writings of Jung. Offering numerous readings of poems from the "Maximus" series, Stein provides a useful and clearly written introduction to the major themes, cosmological speculations, and poetic inventions of Olson's work.