The Olson Codex: Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs - Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. In The Olson Codex, Dennis Tedlock describes and examines Olson's efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson's work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.