I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

but was repelled by Pound's increasingly fascist tendencies. George F. Olson is listed as an influence on artists including Carolee Schneemann and James Tenney.

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets which includes the New York School the Black Mountain School the Beat poets and the San Francisco Renaissance. ". Consequently many postmodern groups such as the poets of the language school include Olson as a primary and precedent figure.