Book Release with Signing.

Ann Charters' new book, Young Tom and Charlie: Two American Poets at Home in Gloucester, is an important bridge between the poetic worlds of these important literary artists.

A longtime Olson scholar, Ann Charters turns her critical attention to the relationship of place and poetry in Tom and Charlie. This book brings together some of Gloucester’s most eccentric and impressive sons. Charles Olson and TS Eliot both had childhoods shaped by the light and scent, the seascapes and hillsides of the city of Gloucester. Charters’ book raises the essential question of how this place influenced the perspective and craft of two such wildly different poetic spirits.

Through essays, poems, and photographs, the city of Gloucester takes its place in the history of two boys whose poetry transformed the artform.

Images (c) Tony Millionaire. These fine portraits will appear in the mural in Gloucester.

YOUNG TOM AND CHARLIE: Two American Poets at Home in Gloucester