Charles Olson
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"Charles Olson" was a second generation United States poetry/American modernist poetry/modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the The New American Poetry 1945-1960/New American poets, which includes the New York School (art)/New York School, the Black Mountain poets/Black Mountain School, the Beat generation/Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Consequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the language poets/language school, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist of morning."

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I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

I feel there should be some kind of cutoff. Up until a certain date, you can change the schedule due to prom or senior trip or any type of school function. After a certain point, you can't do this.

She definitely surprised me. I've seen her pitch before. She used to be a keep-it-around-the-knees-type pitcher. Saturday, her out pitch was the high fastball.

Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle, And the dirt, Just to make clear where they come from.

We have some younger girls in our lineup right now. They need to learn to be more aggressive at the plate. This has been a problem for us all season. We just can't seem to come up with the key hit or big inning when we need it. I mean that team was ranked in the top 10 or 15 in South Jersey, and we were right there with them.