Bouées, portulans et cartes en TO : L’idéal cartographique dans les Maximus Poems de Charles Olson.

Abstract

For Charles Olson, places represent an ideal foundation for his poetry in so far as they free it from ego, history and nature by virtue of their being the compound of social and environmental forces. However, if place is a necessary a priori condition for creation, the writing of place is no self-evident rediscovery of immanence. The emergence of the cartographic paradigm in the Maximus Poems is thus the product of the poet’s effort to reconcile writing and place.

Keywords

• cartography
• environment
• interface
• long poem
• pragmatism
• presence