I had read these poems before to myself and was not aware of the influence that reading them out loud would have on the sound of the verse. This is the great reason for reading out loud. Poetry is performative- even when it is intellectual, even when you can sense Olson writing the poems on a bench by the water or huddled over the typewriter in his cold kitchen. Even when the poems are examples of concrete verse, I feel they cry out for performance.Would you give over two days to reading Maximus? Does the idea get your juices going? If so, we should talk. I live in Asturias in the mountains of northern Spain. This is the place for reading and I welcome people here who have a similar passion for reading.