John Olson

• Apr-2008
• / Historical
• 

Fiction. SOULS OF WIND is a story of inner agitation, a quest for beatitude that plays out in the dynamics of the American West in 1880. French poet Arthur Rimbaud makes a detour to the United States whose emerging post-Civil War exhilarations and vi...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
• 

For noted poet John Olson, the French painter Georges Braque embodies “the seeing machine” -- one of many artists who challenged the accepted views of perception and expression during the early twentieth century. Imaging Braque’s life from the ...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction
• 

Fiction. IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN JUSTY is a grievance against everything inimical to nuance and subtlety and delicacy and charm. It's a fervent attempt to reclaim a quality of attention that has been threatened to near extinction by rampant techno-n...

• Nov-2023
• / Literary
• 

We live, according to the Chinese curse, in interesting times. Climate change, endless war, the disappearance of a former way of life, items missing from grocery shelves, mad rushes for toilet paper, the emergence of a digital world and the creep of ...