Charles Olsons insistence that the public value of any articulation is inseparable from the particulars of the time and place of its origins resulted in the proprioceptive methodology of his compositionin his speech and his writing in both poetry and prose. Olson did not lecturehe talked. His encyclopedic knowledge of the subjects that interested him engaged in a manner always as surprising to himself as to his listeners. This element of discovery was to him a true measure of what is authentic in language and it exhibits itself most in the impromptu exchanges of which Muthologos is mainly composed. Olson once dened Muthologos as what is said about what is said which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would dene the near and far range of where the poets mind went in a lifetimes intent to go places. In this new compilation of Charles Olsons transcribed lectures and interviews we nally get all of what is preserved of a life of talk allowing Muthologos to stand along with The Maximus Poems Collected Poems Collected Prose and Selected Letters as one of the standard texts of this great poets oeuvre.Ralph Mauds second edition of Muthologos some thirty years after George Buttericks rst adds several new items At Goddard College April 1962 a second Vancouver 1963 discussion Duende Muse and Angel a short addition to the BBC Interview a second On Black Mountain and a further hour of Olsons conversation with Herb Kenny. In addition all the available tapes of these talks and interviews have been listened to again and many of their previous transcription errors have been corrected. Textual notes to each piece identify these corrections and also reveal the provenance of the tapes and the particular way in which each transcription was created.