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Charles Olsons insistence that the public value of any articulation is inseparable from the particulars of the time and place of its origins resulted in the proprioceptive methodology of his compositionin his speech and his writing, in both poetry and prose. Olson did not lecturehe talked. His encyclopedic knowledge of the subjects that interested him engaged in a manner always as surprising to himself as to his listeners. This element of discovery was to him a true measure of what is authentic in language, and it exhibits itself most in the impromptu exchanges of which is mainly composed. Olson once de?ned Muthologos as what is said about what is said, which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would de?ne the near and far range of where the poets mind went in a lifetimes intent to go places. In this new compilation of Charles Olsons transcribed lectures and interviews, we ?nally get all of what is preserved of a life of talk, allowing to stand, along with , , and as one of the standard texts of this great poets oeuvre.