Poetry. This fascicle is #4 in the twenty-eight chapter epic collaboration based upon A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul by Charles Olson under the general editorship of John Clarke. ONE'S OWN MIND is the penultimate volume of the project which began in 1971 with #21, VISION by Drummond Hadley and which includes works by Duncan McNaughton, Anselm Hollo, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Alice Notley, Robert Duncan, James Koller, Robin Blaser and many others. About ONE'S OWN MIND Peter Quatermain writes: A real accomplishment, if that's at all a meaningful word. It really IS a conversation, and the reader -- or at least this one -- really does talk back, confirm, wonder, think, bog off and read, talk back some more. Speak of stepping out, yes, and if you put it in mind then the mind steps out. If what ONE'S OWN MIND does is privilege the reader, then I'm all for this kind of privilege.

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Born and raised in Riverside, California, Michael Boughn moved to Canada in 1966 because of his opposition to the war against Viet Nam. In Vancouver he met and studied with Robin Blaser who introduced him to the work of William Blake, Charles Olson, H.D., Jack Spicer, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and other crucial writers. He spent nearly 10 years working in the Teamsters before returning to school to study with Robert Creeley and Jack Clarke in Buffalo, N.Y. where he received his PhD in 1986. Since 1993 he has lived in Toronto. He is the author of Iterations of the Diagonal, DISLOCATIONS IN CRYSTAL, Into the World of the Dead, One's own Mind, 22 SKIDOO/SUBTRACTIONS, and COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST-LUCRECIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC. With Victor Coleman, he edited Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. His detective novel, Business As Usual, is forthcoming.