Research Catalog

Title

Way more West : new and selected poems / Edward Dorn ; introduction by Dale Smith ; edited by Michael Rothenberg.

Author

Dorn, Edward

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rothenberg, Michael
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xvii, 321 p. : 1 port.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Edward Dorn was not only one of America's finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and commentator. He was a student of Charles Olson, who helped him to see the American West as a site for his quest for self-knowledge; at the core of his work is a deep sense of place and the people who occupy it, underpinned by a wry ironic dissent. It was Dorn's comic-epic masterpiece, Gunslinger, which began appearing in 1968 and had already become an underground classic by the time it was published in its entirety in 1974, that established his reputation in the wider world. This new volume brings together poems from Dorn's entire career, including previously uncollected works."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Penguin poets

Subject

American poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The new American poetry -- The newly fallen -- Hands up -- Geography -- The North Atlantic turbine -- Gunslinger -- Twenty-four love songs -- Recollections of Gran Apachería -- Hello, La Jolla -- Yellow Lola -- Captain Jack's chaps/or, Houston MLA -- Abhorrences -- Westward haut -- Rocky Mountain spine -- Languedoc variorum: a defense of heresy and heretics -- Chemo Sábe.

ISBN

• 0143038699
• 9780143038696

LCCN

^^2006050727

OCLC

• 71146626
• SCSB-11204568

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library