Documentary on the poet Charles Olson

"Polis Is This' wrestles with the six foot eight inch 275lb colossus of poetry, Charles Olson, in the squared circle of understanding. Through never before seen footage and interviews actor John Malkovich leads an all-star unit in a search and explore mission."

Link

"  An American
is a complex of occasions,
themselves a geometry
of spatial nature.

 I have this sense,
that I am one
with my skin

  Plus this--plus this
that forever the geography
which leans in
on me I compel
backwards I compel Gloucester
to yield, to
change


 Polis
is this"

((((I have Eric Unger to thank for this link and knowledge of this man)))