exp/exp

Note discrepancy (mistake?) between Allen/Friedlander version of “Place; & Names” in their _Collected Prose_ and what Olson uses in his reading of the poem in ’63 of “experimental”/”experiential” on the 8th line of the piece. I’ve always thought of it as “experiential.” I’ll leave it to the researchers but I can’t think of Olson saying the word “experimental.”

and that this is so

for physical & experiential reasons of

the

[he interjects here in the Vancouver session]

(which is the only thing I don’t like in this thing)

the philosophia perennis, or Isness

…

His yurp-ean problem with the “one.”

The “many” and the “double” (particularly the double) resonate through much of the thinking and poetics, for me, since. Eg. the genetics of the biotext “be as parts of the body, common, & capable/ therefore of having cells…”

…

I know now

I’d better find that double edge between you

and your father so that the synchronous axe

keeps splitting whatever this is the weight of

I’m left holding.

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