Way More West

Way More West

Author: Edward Dorn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-04-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1440623562

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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.


Gunslinger

Gunslinger

Author: Edward Dorn

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780822309321

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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, as become a minor classic.


Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West

Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West

Author: Paul Varner

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1527548422

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This book examines the poetics of the 20th-century American West depicted by Edward Dorn through the influence and inspiration of his Black Mountain College mentor and fellow poet Charles Olson. It considers some of the most important and challenging poetic representations of the 20th-century American West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.


Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

Author: Amiri Baraka

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0826353916

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The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.


Ed Dorn Live

Ed Dorn Live

Author: Edward Dorn

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780472068623

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Collects the commentary of the later years and last days of one of America's most powerful and unique poets


The Maximus Poems

The Maximus Poems

Author: Charles Olson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 0520055950

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The Maximus Poems is one of the high achievements of twentieth-century American letters and an essential poem in the postmodern canon. It stands out, in Hayden Carruth's words, as "a huge and truly angelic effort," matching the dimensions of its hero's name and returning poetry to its Homeric and Hesiodic scope. This complete edition of The Maximus Poems brings together the three volumes of Charles Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968, and 1975, and long out of print) in an authoritative version edited according to the highest standards of textual criticism. Errors in the previous editions have been corrected, twenty-nine new poems added, and the sequence of the final poems modified in the light of the editor's research among the poet's papers. --University of California Press.


The Shoshoneans

The Shoshoneans

Author: Edward Dorn

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0826353819

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" A path-breaking photo narrative of Dorn and African-American photographer Leroy Lucas's mid-1960s travels through Shoshoni Indian country (Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) to paint a stark tableau of modern Native life"--


Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement

Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement

Author: Paul Varner

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0810871890

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The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s generation, headlined by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, a new generation arose in the 1960s led by writers such as Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, and poets from the East Side Scene. In the 1970s and 1980s writers from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and contributors to World magazine continued the movement. The 1980s and 1990s Language Movement saw itself as an outgrowth and progression of previous Beat aesthetics. Today poets and writers in San Francisco still gather at City Lights Bookstore and in Boulder at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and continue the movement. It is now a postmodern movement and probably would be unrecognizable to the earliest Beats. It may even be in the process of finally shedding the name Beat. But the Movement continues. The Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement covers the movement's history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant novels, poems, and volumes of poetry and prose that have formed the Beat canon. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Beat Movement.