So for Michael Palmer, this "tendency" seems there from the beginning. Today these concerns continue through multiple collaborations across the fields of poetry, dance, translation, and the visual arts. Perhaps similar to Olson's impact on his generation, Palmer's influence remains singular and palpable, if difficult to measure. Since Olson's death in 1970, we continue to be, following upon George Oppen's phrase, "carried into the incalculable", As Palmer recently noted in a blurb for Claudia Rankine's poetic testament "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (2004), ours is ""a time when even death and the self have been re-configured as commodities"".