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Also Known As	Charles John Olson
Born	December 27, 1910 • Worcester • Massachusetts
Died	January 10, 1970 (aged 59) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	“A Nation of Nothing but Poetry: Supplementary Poems” • “Collected Prose” • “The Distances” • “In Cold Hell, in Thicket” • “Letters for Origin, 1950-1956” • “Projective Verse” • “The Maximus Poems”
Movement / Style	Black Mountain poets

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