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