The papers contain items relating to the life and work of the American poet Edward Dorn, primarily from the late 1980s to his death in 1999. Some correspondence, notebooks, and files date from earlier periods of his life. The collection is organized into eight series. Series 1 includes Dorn's general correspondence of ca. 1992-1999, mostly incoming, with about 300 different individuals; 154 pieces of correspondence with Tom Clark, beginning in 1980; Dorn's letters to Jennifer Dunbar, his wife-to-be, from 1967 and 1968; photocopies of correspondence with LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka); a digital file of certain of Dorn's letters; correspondence relating to publishers and poetry readings; and condolences addressed to Jennifer upon his death. It also includes 28 letters from Dorn to Gordon Taylor that were given to Jennifer Dorn after Dorn's death. Series 2 includes Dorn's manuscripts, mostly in the form of printouts and proofs for works such as Abhorrences, Chemo Sábe, Gunslinger, Hi Plane, and Langue d'Oc, among others. An extensive collection of Dorn's notebooks, address books, and calendars is also in Series 2. Series 3 contains files relating to Dorn's education and career at Black Mountain College and at the University of Colorado, including a two-page letter from Robert Creeley on behalf of Dorn's graduation from Black Mountain College and a certificate signed by Charles Olson. Series 4 holds the archives of the literary magazine Rolling Stock. Miscellaneous items such as broadsides by Dorn appear in Series 5, while Series 6 contains manuscripts by other individuals about Dorn and other subjects. Series 7 holds audio recordings that include 18 cassettes by Stan Brakhage, an interview with Amiri Baraka, and readings by Charles Olson among others. Series 8 includes the original folders that housed the collection; many are labeled in Dorn's hand.

Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, as become a minor classic.

Collects the commentary of the later years and last days of one of America's most powerful and unique poets

The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.

" A path-breaking photo narrative of Dorn and African-American photographer Leroy Lucas's mid-1960s travels through Shoshoni Indian country (Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) to paint a stark tableau of modern Native life"--

Volume 2 of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. On the Poems of J.H. Prynne. Edited by Ryan Dobran.Contents:RYAN DOBRAN, Introduction JOSH STANLEY, Back On Into The Way Home: "Charm Against Too Many Apples" [The White Stones, 1969];THOMAS ROEBUCK & MATTHEW SPERLING, "The Glacial Question, Unsolved": A Specimen Commentary on Lines 1-31 [The White Stones, 1969]ROBIN PURVES, A Commentary on J.H. Prynne's "Thoughts on the Esterh�zy Court Uniform" [The White Stones, 1969]REITHA PATTISON, J.H. Prynne's "The Corn Burned by Syrius" [The White Stones, 1969]KESTON SUTHERLAND, Hilarious absolute daybreak [Brass, 1971]MICHAEL STONE-RICHARDS, The time of the subject in the neurological field (I): A Commentary on J.H. Prynne's "Again in the Black Cloud" [Wound Response, 1974]JUSTIN KATKO, Relativistic Phytosophy: Towards a Commentary on "The Plant Time Manifold Transcripts" [Wound Response, 1974]JOHN WILKINSON, Heigh Ho: A Partial Gloss of Word Order [Word Order, 1989]Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory. GLOSSATOR.ORG

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 poemGunslinger. 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.