A dispute about images: Maximus of Tyre in 1963

I believe in God
as fully physical 
thus the Outer Předmost
of the World on which we ‘hang’
as though it were wood and our own bodies are
hanging on it

 – Charles Olson Maximus Poems, III, 13, 1963

Allen Ginsberg Charles Olson “Poet Maximus elder”  during the Vancouver Poetry Conference, July 1963. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate
Ben Shahn, Maximus of Tyre, 1963

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