An Open Map

"Invaluable archival documents. . . . Bertholf and Smith also supply a strong accounting of the context of Olson and Duncan's correspondence in their introduction to An Open Map."--Eric Keenaghan, Journal of Modern Literature

"These letters illuminate and inform many of the most important discussions in US poetry of the time."--Daniel Katz, American Literary History

"An essential correspondence between two [of] the most innovative and visionary poets in American literature. In these letters is contained the generative energies of some of the best poetry written in the twentieth century."--Peter O'Leary, author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness