num_pages: 175
description: Introduction: Cabalist in the wrong season /​ Harold BillingsEdward Dahlberg's book of Lazarus /​ Jonathan WilliamsAn introduction to Bottom dogs /​ D. H. LawrencePreface to Bottom dogs, 1961 /​ Edward DahlbergThe flea of Sodom /​ William Carlos WilliamsThe sorrows of Priapus /​ Sir Herbert ReadEdward Dahlberg's Moral book of erotic beasts /​ Joseph Evans SlateA great stylist: the prophet as critic /​ Allen Tate"Cudgels and distaffs, for the rebirth . . ." /​ Victor LiptonEdward Dahlberg's Because I was flesh /​ Josephine HerbstThe eloquence of failure /​ Alfred KazinForeword to Alms for oblivion /​ Sir Herbert ReadTwo reviews /​ Frank MacShaneThe benevolent scourge: Edward Dahlberg and modern American letters /​ Robert KindrickAn introduction to Edward Dahlberg /​ Paul CarrollA man in the wilderness /​ Kay Boyle.
language: English
title: Edward Dahlberg, American Ishmael of Letters: Selected Critical Essays
titlecomplete: Edward Dahlberg, American Ishmael of Letters: Selected Critical Essays
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Roger Beacham Pub