by Alasdair Clayre
Black Mountain means for most people a certain kind of poetry associated with writers like Olson. Creeley, or Duncan. But the College, which was founded in 1933 in North Carolina, was famous from its early days for its original concepts of education and only later for its contributions to the arts.
ALASDAIR CLAYRE talks to
JOSEF ALBERS who came to Black Mountain from the Bauhaus at its foundation to CHARLES OLSON the last Rector and to others who lived and worked there also to MICHAEL WEAVER of the University of Exeter, who has done extensive research on Black Mountain for a book shortly to be published in the U.S.A.
Produced by Tony Gould