num_pages: 448
description: 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Charles Olson and Robert Creeley—offers a record of Dorn's life and work drawing upon fresh testimony, letters and unpublished manuscript material provided by surviving family members.
language: English
title: Edward Dorn: A World of Difference
titlecomplete: Edward Dorn: A World of Difference
characters: Edward Dorn
genres: Biography, Poetry
ratings_count: 9
publisher: North Atlantic Books