Edward Dorn: A World of Difference

Clark, Tom

ISBN 10: 1556433972 / ISBN 13: 9781556433979

Published by North Atlantic Books, 2002

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 434 p. Audience: General/trade. This biography offers a record of Dorn's life and work drawing on fresh testimony, letters and unpublished manuscript material. Dorn was a "culture morphologist, " a poet whose lifelong drive was to the complex meanings of places and the people who inhabit those places. An important voice in the poetic canon of American post-modern literature. Very good in very good dust jacket. Very clean book. Spine very slightly cocked. First edition. First Edition, First Printing. Bookseller Inventory # Alibris.00010000263

Bibliographic Details

Title: Edward Dorn: A World of Difference

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

After initiating a critical involvement with new poetics in dialogue with his mentor Charles Olson at Black Mountain College in the 1950s, Dorn wandered the trans-mountain West following the variable winds of writing and casual employment until the mid-1960s, when a time of trial and change resulted in the beginnings of the groundbreaking long poem Gunslinger. This first biography by his longtime friend and fellow poet Tom Clark—author of previous biographies of Jack Kerouac, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley—offers a record of Dorn's life and work drawing upon fresh testimony, letters and unpublished manuscript material provided by surviving family members.

About the Author:

Edward Dorn was born in 1929 in Villa Grove, Illinois and died in 1999 in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry. His writing enacts a deep respect for and attention to the diverse landforms of his native country.