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Collected Poems Reprint Edition
Author(s): Edward Dorn (Author), Jennifer Dunbar Dorn
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 29 Nov. 2012
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 1024 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847771262
- ISBN-13: 9781847771261
Book Description
Edward Dorn’s Collected Poems Reprint Edition 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scope of his poetry, from poems of the 1950s and 60s to his posthumous Chemo Sabe (2001), and a wealth of previously unpublished poems, Gunslinger (1968-75) Dorn’s masterpiece and one of the great American poems, is included in its entirety.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 Reprint Edition 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Ever since I was arrested for stealing a copy of Gunslinger I have paid very close attention to Edward Dorn’s poetry… As a political satirist you can’t bypass him, you have to go through him. His humour hooks in and hauls the laugh out of you. His long acquaintance with Britain has helped shape some of the best poets who served their apprenticeships in the 1960s. Culturally speaking the Old Country owes him a great debt… Any publication by Dorn is an exciting event…’ –Tom Pickard
‘This monumental and superbly produced
Collected Poems Reprint Edition from Manchester’s Carcanet Press should go some way to rectifying things, for it reveals the body of Dorn’s lifelong work in poetry as an achievement of tremendous intelligence, scope and energy’. –Matthew Sperling, The London MagazineAbout 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.
