Projective Verse
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Projective Verse is Charles Olson’s influential 1950 essay that outlines a breath-based, open-form poetics central to the practice and theory of the Black Mountain poets.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Projective Verse canonical | 2 |
| Projective Verse tradition | 1 |
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
ⓘ
poetics manifesto ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
Black Mountain poets
ⓘ
surface form:
Black Mountain poetry
postmodern American poetry ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Black Mountain College ⓘ |
| author | Charles Olson ⓘ |
| centralIdea |
poem as a high-energy construct
ⓘ
poem as an extension of the poet’s physiology ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | considered a foundational text of mid-20th-century American avant-garde poetics ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Poetry New York ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
ⓘ
poetics essay ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
free verse theory
ⓘ
performance-oriented poetry ⓘ spoken word poetics ⓘ |
| hasNotableQuote |
FORM IS NEVER MORE THAN AN EXTENSION OF CONTENT
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ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post–World War II American poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Allen Ginsberg
ⓘ
Beat Generation ⓘ
surface form:
Beat Generation poets
Black Mountain poets ⓘ Denise Levertov ⓘ Language poets ⓘ Robert Creeley ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
breath-based line
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composition by field ⓘ energy transfer from poet to reader ⓘ open form ⓘ projective line ⓘ the line as a unit of breath ⓘ typewriter as scoring instrument ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
composition by field
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open form poetry ⓘ poetics ⓘ prosody ⓘ |
| opposes |
closed form poetry
ⓘ
traditional metrical verse ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| theorizes |
page as a field of composition
ⓘ
relationship between breath and poetic line ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Projective Verse tradition