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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEdward Dorn uses his poems as political commentary in the collection 'Abhorrences,' in which he criticizes the social and political situation in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan is strongly criticized as the friend of the...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 49, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedEdward Dorn is the dead poet I miss most these days, when the poetry passing for political is about as forceful as a garden hose sans nozzle. In the last decades of his life, Dorn was mostly writing a topical poetry,...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEdward Dorn's book length poem 'Gunslinger' offers a statement on both sociocultural and artistic battles for freedom from discrimination and the confines of mainstream society. Published in the late 1960s and early...
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From: American Literature[(essay date November 1981) In the following essay, Davidson presents a detailed analysis of Slinger, discussing Dorn's treatment of philosophy, of the concepts of time and space, and of the subject through his use of...
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From: Chicago Review[(essay date summer 2004) In the following essay, Smith uses an analysis of Dorn's prose work The Shoshoneans to illuminate the central place of geography and the experience of the outsider in Dorn's poetry.] In the...
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From: American Poetry Review[(essay date January/February 2002) In the following essay, Clark provides biographical detail on Dorn's time in England, beginning in 1965, and discusses Dorn's complex relationship to American culture and politics.]...
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From: Boundary[(essay date winter 1981) In the following essay, von Hallberg focuses on the political aspects and the originality of Dorn's poetry.] Such a thing as humanity seems very relative, the final abjuring of any vision.1...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 49, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedDorn's letters are his autobiography (as David Southern says in his essay that follows this selection). The archives are coherent enough to provide, in this brief glimpse, an insight into Dorn's early writing life,...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date summer 1997) In the following essay, Bezner discusses the political issues covered in Dorn's Abhorrences, including the poet's criticism of Ronald Reagan's policies during his presidency.] In his most...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 55, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe years following Edward Dorn's death on December 10, 1999, saw numerous literary memorials (including special issues of Jacket and Chicago Review), but eleven years later it remains to be seen if, how, and by whom...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 49, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn December of '99, when I first heard that Ed Dorn was dead at seventy of pancreatic cancer, I was at once stunned and not exactly surprised. He hadn't been looking too good in recent years. After performing a...
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From: A Pageant of Its Time": Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, focusing primarily on Book I of Dorn's Gunslinger, Elmborg discusses the connections between the poem and the cultural context of 1976 when it was written.] Most readers...
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From: Chicago Review[(essay date summer 2004) In the following essay, Tuma asserts that while some of Dorn's late poetry may not be his best, his penchant for direct and hard-hitting political statement is in short supply and is greatly...
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From: Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Wesling discusses the unique aspects of Dorn's shorter poetry, providing an extensive analysis of Dorn's treatment of the concept of attention.] "We are bleached in...
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From: Chicago Review[(essay date summer 2004) In the following essay, Steinhoff provides an introduction to Dorn's work and argues for his continued relevance.] Edward Dorn (1929-1999) should need no introduction. Regardless what readers...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewedwe scoured the ground of the earth to start tires in these rickety geographies we knew better than to call home.--Dorn, The Collected Poems , 83 One of the central Black Mountain poets and an original voice of the...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 49, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedBy the 1990s, Ed Dorn had honed a sharp distinction between "poet" and "writer," making it clear that he was a member of the larger, more inclusive class. He is, of course, principally celebrated for his poems, in...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date winter 1978) In the following essay, Lockwood discusses the intersection of geography, poetic theory, and the possibilities for poetry in North America in Dorn's prose and poetry.] Ed Dorn is one of the...
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From: Edward Dorn[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, McPheron offers a brief biographical introduction and an analysis of Dorn's poetry divided into three distinct periods, presenting Dorn as a fundamentally political poet.]...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 49, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn the summer of 1965 Edward Dorn attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference, substituting for LeRoi Jones. He spoke to the audience of his travel with photographer Leroy Lucas through what is known geographically as the...