Synopsis
Edward Dorn's Collected Poems enables readers to experience for the first time the full scope of his poetry, from poems of the 1950s and 60s to his posthumous Chemo Sabe (2001), and a wealth of previously unpublished poems, Gunslinger (1968-75) Dorn's masterpiece and one of the great American poems, is included in its entirety. Passionate, searing, witty and committed, Dorn's Collected Poems is one of the century's essential bodies of work. The book includes a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, the poet's window, and afterwords by Jermy Prynne and Amiri Baraka. Dorn's prefaces to his collections, publication histories and bibliographies enrich the poems in this indispensible edition.
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About the Author
Edward Dorn was born in Eastern Illinois in 1929 and grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. After two years at the University of Illinois, a set of circumstances and warps of destiny took him to Black Mountain College, where he studied with Charles Olson. For several years he travelled through the Far West, following the winds of writing and employment. In 1961 he became a teacher at the University of Idaho and saw the publication of his first book of poetry. Invited by Donald Davie in 1965 to join the faculty at the new University of Essex, he spent most of the next 5 years in England, where he wrote the first book of his epic Gunslinger. In the 1970s he taught at universities from Chicago to California, and again at Essex, before accepting a professorship in 1978 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he directed the creative writing program, and continued teaching until his death in December, 1999. He is the author of over 40 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and translation.
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