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

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

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