Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes almost 200 letters (out of a known 3000), spanning the years from 1931 when he was a college undergraduate to his death in 1970, and chosen to present a well-rounded picture of Olson. While most of the letters are to other poets, writers and artists - including Ruth Benedict, Malcolm Cowley, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Robert Creeley, Cid Corman, Fielding Dawson, Ben Shahn, Carl Jung, Jonathan Williams, Paul Blackburn, Larry Eigner, Edward Dorn, Anselm Hollo, Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, David Ignatow, Michael McClure, and many others. - the first letter is to his father and there are also such diverse letters as a World War II letter to the Office of Strategic Services. Introduction and annotations throughout by Maud, chronology, bibliography, and index. xxxix, 493 pp. ISBN: 0520205804.