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Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999, aged 70) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is Gunslinger . Overview. Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression.
Edward Dorn was a poet of the West who wrote about politics, history, and culture in a vernacular and erudite style. He is best known for his four-volume epic Slinger, a fantasy journey across America with a talking horse and a madam.
With the death of Edward Dorn the United States loses not only one of its finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and cultural commentator. Dorn was born in rural Illinois at the start of the Great Depression, in poverty.
Edward Merton Dorn is generally regarded as one of twentieth century America’s most brilliant satiric poets; he wrote more than twenty books. He was born in 1929 into a poor...
In the poem that follows, entitled “The Cycle of Robart’s Wallet”—“Robart” being a play on Hughes’s middle name, Robard—we finally catch a glimpse of the mercurial recluse. Dorn, in fact, skillfully mythologizes Hughes’s secretive journey by private railway car in 1966 to Las Vegas into verse:
Ed Dorn. (1929—1999) Quick Reference. (1929–1999), Illinois-born poet, studied at Black Mountain College under Charles Olson, about whose work he wrote a critical study, What I See in the Maximus Poems (1960).
Full-program video with downloadable audio option at Poetry Center Digital Archive: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/12669Edward Dorn, Septembe...
