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Charles Olson’s seminal work, Call Me IshmaelOlson, Charles (1947), would redirect MelvilleMelville, Herman scholarship, American cultural studies, and poetry. The opening line is now iconic: “I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America.” The centrality of this fact has long-charted a certain trajectory for Olson criticism. “SPACE” has been attributed to Olson’s contextualization of “whaling as FRONTIER, and INDUSTRY,” as suggested in the first chapter of Call Me IshmaelOlson, Charles. From this context, Olson’s space has been read as the negativity or virgin field driving the expanding borders of a poet’s place, identity, and corpus over an empty land, sea, air, or page.

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Cannibalism, Mutiny, Revolution in Charles Olson (and Susan Howe

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    2026年

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  • Joseph Shafer

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Charles Olson’s seminal work, Call Me IshmaelOlson, Charles (1947), would redirect MelvilleMelville, Herman scholarship, American cultural studies, and poetry. The opening line is now iconic: “I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America.” The centrality of this fact has long-charted a certain trajectory for Olson criticism. “SPACE” has been attributed to Olson’s contextualization of “whaling as FRONTIER, and INDUSTRY,” as suggested in the first chapter of Call Me IshmaelOlson, Charles. From this context, Olson’s space has been read as the negativity or virgin field driving the expanding borders of a poet’s place, identity, and corpus over an empty land, sea, air, or page.