John Olson (writer) explained

John Olson (born August 23, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American poet and novelist. Olson has lived for many years in Seattle, Washington. He has published eleven collections of poetry and five novels, including Souls of Wind, nominated for the 2008 Believer Book Award.^[1] In 2004, Seattle's weekly newspaper, The Stranger, for whom he has written occasional essays, gave Olson one of its annual "genius awards."^[2] His writing notebooks have been exhibited at the University of Washington.^[3] Olson's prose poetry has been reviewed in print and online poetry magazines.^{[4] [5] [6]} The poet Philip Lamantia said that Olson was "extraordinary...the greatest prose poetry [i've] ever read."^[7] and Clayton Eshleman said "he is writing the most outlandish, strange, and inventive prose poetry ever in the history of the prose poem."^[8]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Weave of the Dream King (Boston: Black Widow Press, 2021)
• Dada Budapest (Boston: Black Widow Press, 2017)
• Larynx Galaxy (Boston: Black Widow Press, 2012)
• Backscatter: New and Selected Poems (Boston: Black Widow Press, 2008)]^[9]
• The Night I Dropped Shakespeare On The Cat (New York: Calamari Press, 2006)^[10]
• Oxbow Kazoo (Lawrence, Kansas: First Intensity Press, 2005)^[11]
• Free Stream Velocity (New York: Black Square Editions, 2003)^[12]
• Echo Regime (New York: Black Square Editions, 2000) (lineated poetry)^[13]
• Logo Lagoon (San Diego: Paper Brain Press, 1999)
• Eggs & Mirrors (Seattle: Wood Works Press, 1999)
• Swarm of Edges (Seattle: bcc press, 1996)

Fiction

• Mingled Yarn (Ekstatsis Editions, 2020)
• In Advance of the Broken Justy (Quale Press, 2016)
• The Seeing Machine (Quale Press, 2012)^[14]
• The Nothing That Is (Ravenna Press, 2010)^[15]
• Souls of Wind (Quale Press, 2008)^[16]

Essays

• Strange Matter: The physics and poetics of the search for the God particle, published online by The American Scholar, December 1, 2009.
• "A Garden in the Pocket", published online by "the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica"^[17]
• "Extreme Reading", published online by "the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica"^[18]
• "Gutenberg Blues", published online by "the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica"^[19]
• "Lightning on Paper: Poetry Is The Drug Of Choice" The Stranger, Oct 19–Oct 25, 2000 issue^[20]

External links

• Tillalala Chronicles (Olson's blog)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Issues.
2. Web site: A Poet of Excess and Expansion. Frizzelle. Christopher . October 14, 2004. The Stranger. 2010-03-15.
3. News: Gathering Genius Award winners under one roof is a smart -- and fun -- idea . Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Regina. Hackett. November 9, 2006.
4. Web site: www.raintaxi.com/online/2006winter/olson.shtml. https://web.archive.org/web/20080708184059/http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006winter/olson.shtml. 2008-07-08.
5. Web site: www.believermag.com/issues/200810/?read=review_olson.
6. G. C. Waldrep . JOHN OLSON. Oxbow Kazoo . usurped . Review . Octopus Magazine . 8. 2008-11-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20081120031911/http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue08/reviews/gc_waldrep.htm. 2008-11-20.
7. Web site: Steven Fama . November 30, 2006 . The Night I Dropped Shakespeare on the Cat by John Olson . Galatea Resurrection #4.
8. Clayton Eshleman; quoted at Web site: Free Stream Velocity . SPD Books Online . https://archive.today/20070619181509/http://spdbooks.org/details.asp?BookID=0974406503 . 2007-06-19 .
9. Web site: Home . blackwidowpress.com.
10. Web site: John Olson: The Night I Dropped Shakespeare on the Cat.
11. http://spdbooks.org/details.asp?BookID=1889960101{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
12. http://spdbooks.org/details.asp?BookID=0974406503{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
13. http://spdbooks.org/details.asp?BookID=0967514436{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
14. Web site: Quale Press -- the Seeing Machine by John Olson.
15. Web site: The Nothing That is.
16. Web site: Quale Press -- Souls of Wind by John Olson.
17. Web site: The glade of theoric ornithic hermetica.
18. Web site: The glade of theoric ornithic hermetica: Adventures in the Pharmakon . ... 18 June 2009.
19. Web site: The glade of theoric ornithic hermetica: Gutenberg Blues. 29 October 2008.
20. Web site: Lightning on Paper.