Ed Dorn

Gina Wisker (University of Brighton)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 2 Apr 1929
Died 10 Dec 1999
Activity 1956-1999

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Poet

Other

Essayist
Historian / Chronicler

Resources

Dorn's Works

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Edward Dorn's major publications include his

Collected Poems 1956-1974

, his novel

By the Sound

(1971), and other prose works including a brilliant, loving documentary exploration of

The Shoshoneans

(1966), a book which reveals the same complete identification with dispossessed originals or strangers as is found in his poems like “Mourning Letter, March 29, 1963” dedicated to the starved miners of Hazard, Kentucky which ends “Oh, go letter,/keep my own misery close to theirs, associate me with no other honor.”

Gunslinger

(1968-1975) is his masterwork and absolutely in touch with the tradition of the American long poem. A rich variety of other publications includes

Bean News

, an art newspaper offering all the news that has been; a national newspaper of politics and the arts,

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Citation: Wisker, Gina. "Ed Dorn". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 June 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4993, accessed 27 November 2024.]