An essential anthology of an innovative American poet Edward Dorn was not only one of America’s finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and commentator. He was a student of Charles Olson, who helped him to see the American West as a site for his quest for self-knowledge; at the core of his work is a deep sense of place and the people who occupy it, underpinned by a wry ironic dissent. It was Dorn’s comic-epic masterpiece, Gunslinger, which began appearing in 1968 and had already become an underground classic by the time it was published in its entirety in 1974, that established his reputation in the wider world. This new volume brings together poems from Dorn’s entire career, including previously uncollected work.

Way More West (Penguin Poets)

Literature & Fiction

DORN, EDWARD

Poetry

Penguin??Books

Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (Poets On Poetry)

“ Ed Dorn’ s achievement has been to create single-handedly a language of public reference, and to have brought within the sphere of expressive language and poetic experience objects and feelings which had been, literally, unimaginable in those terms. It is in this context that he is one of the masters of our contemporary language.” — Peter Ackroyd“ Ed was one of the most thoughtful but penetrating thinkers. There was no PollyAnna in him at all. And that’ s what I liked about him.” — Amiri BarakaAlong with Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, and others, Edward Dorn taught at and became associated with the Black Mountain school in North Carolina. Although influenced by Charles Olson, Dorn’ s poetry was really like no other’ s. The Virginia Quarterly Review called him “ an experienced and accomplished poet who has absorbed Olson, Williams, and Pound and moved beyond them.” This book is especially important for the way it synthesizes Dorn’ s views on poetic experimentation, the distinction between consciousness and sensibility, and “ heretical” intellection, which is to say the components of his poetics of aggression.

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

Ed Dorn’s achievement has been to create single-handedly a language of public reference, and to have brought within the sphere of expressive language and poetic experience objects and feelings which had been, literally, unimaginable in those terms. It is in this context that he is one of the masters of our contemporary language.”Peter AckroydEd was one of the most thoughtful but penetrating thinkers. There was no PollyAnna in him at all. And that’s what I liked about him.”Amiri BarakaAlong with Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, and others, Edward Dorn taught at and became associated with the Black Mountain school in North Carolina. Although influenced by Charles Olson, Dorn’s poetry was really like no other’s. The Virginia Quarterly Review called him an experienced and accomplished poet who has absorbed Olson, Williams, and Pound and moved beyond them.”This book is especially important for the way it synthesizes Dorn’s views on poetic experimentation, the distinction between consciousness and sensibility, and heretical” intellection, which is to say the components of his poetics of aggression.

By the Sound

Literary

Frontier Pr California

Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World

Gunslinger

Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, has become a minor classic.

United States

Duke University Press Books

Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, has become a minor classic.

First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never before--or since--documented in such striking and memorable fashion. Neither a book of journalism nor a work of poetry, this powerful collaboration represents the wild wandering of a white poet and black photographer in Civil Rights era (also Vietnam War era) America through a part of the indigenous West that had resisted prior incursions. The expanded edition offers a wealth of supplemental material, much of it archival, which includes poetry, correspondence, the lecture "The Poet, the People, the Spirit," and the essay "Ed Dorn in Santa Fe."

The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)

Arts & Photography

Lucas, Leroy

Photography & Video

University of New Mexico Press

North Atlantic Turbine

Fulcrum Press

A collection of poetry by Edward Dorn.

Abhorrences

Black Sparrow Press

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Way More West (Penguin Poets)

Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (Poets On Poetry)

Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (Poets On Poetry)

By the Sound

Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World

Gunslinger

Gunslinger

The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)

North Atlantic Turbine

Abhorrences