the Penn Sound audio files (linked to the right) are really exciting. listened to Stacy Doris, Berrigan, Olson. Berrigan does all of The Sonnets. great intro, in which he just riffs on how he came to write this grand d'oeuvre. Olson sounds like a previous generation. he reads in a dramatic way that sounds a little old-fashioned. his accent is sure New England, 'purer' maybe. than you'd here much now. my father was born 3 months afer Olson, in Cambridge, 50 miles east of Olson's Worcester, but the accents are different. it's a gold mine here. Blaser lectures on Olson, Hannah Weiner, Oppen, Reznikoff, Dorn's Gunslinger, and younger poets too.