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Title

Collected poems / Edward Dorn ; edited with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn ... [et al.].

Author

Dorn, Edward

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Dorn, Jennifer Dunbar
• Katko, Justin
• Pattison, Reitha
• Waugh, Kyle
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xxviii, 995 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

After studying with Charles Olson at Black Mountain College, Dorn took on the American West, developing an unmistakeable voice, 'as evocative as a lonesome train whistle in the night'. This book is a collection of his poems.

Uniform Title

Poems. 2012

Alternative Title

Poems. 2012

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 958-962) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Early Poems (1954-1960) -- Grasses -- Relics from a Polar Cairn -- Litany for Yellow Lamp -- Store Scene -- Revival -- Lines from a Sitting Position -- Rick of Green Wood -- Hide of My Mother -- When the Fairies -- Stately Dance -- For Ray (the 6th) -- 7th -- Newly Fallen (1961) -- Geranium -- Sparrow Sky -- 3 Farm Poems -- 1. war -- 2. touch -- 3. Goodbye to the Illinois -- Open Road -- Song -- Sousa -- Biggest Killing -- Top List -- Prisoner of Bellefonte (pa) -- Like a Message on Sunday -- Our Camp -- Argument Is -- Country Song -- Common Lot -- Prayers for the People of the World -- For a Man -- And Thus -- There was a Change -- If it should ever come -- Uncollected Poems (1961-1964) -- Nature their passing bell: an atonement -- Inauguration Poem -- Africa Ode -- Address for the First Woman to Face Death in Havana -- Old Love -- poet lectures famous potatoes -- Overture to I -- Mountains -- [Pocatello is black] -- Hands Up! (1964) -- Vaquero -- Deer's Eye the Hunter's Nose -- Wagon Wheels -- Sea Corner, of the Eye -- Trail Creek, Aug.11, the Reason of Higher Powers -- Home on the Range, February, 1962 -- Time to Burn -- On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck -- Obituary -- Tepee at Tomah -- Death While Journeying -- Ledyard: The Exhaustion of Sheer Distance -- Los Mineros -- In the Morning -- Land Below -- Are They Dancing -- Hawthorne, End of March, 1962 -- Song is Ended -- In My Youth I Was a Tireless Dancer -- Pronouncement -- Too Hopefully Bold Measure -- Air of June Sings -- Encounter -- Hemlocks -- Time Blonde -- Unlike Music -- Oh Don't Ask why -- Fate of Unannounced Years -- Hands Up -- From Gloucester Out (1964) -- Nine Songs (1965) -- Geography (1965) -- Song: The astronauts -- problem of the poem for my daughter, left unsolved -- letter, in the meantime, not to be mailed, tonight -- Inauguration poem #2 -- West of Moab -- Idaho Out -- Six views from the same window of the Northside Grocery -- Daffodil song -- Song [my wife is lovely] -- Love song [for Lucia] -- Love song [for Cathy] -- vague love -- Another vague love -- Song [Oh Gods of my disembarked soul this is sad] -- wild blue, yonder -- In the shadow -- Song [If the world] -- song [There is a blue sky] -- explanation -- Chronicle -- Song [So we somewhat stagger together] -- Song [Christ of the sparrows Help me!] -- Parlor car beer -- Poem in five parts -- Song [This afternoon was unholy, the sky] -- Dark ceiling -- This March afternoon -- Song: Heat -- reception -- Song: We shall refrain from them -- smug never silent guns of the enemy -- Fort Hall obituary: A note -- Mourning letter, March 29, 1963 -- Eugene Delacroix says -- Song: Venceremos -- Dwarfing with chemicals: A promising agricultural technique -- sense comes over me, and the waning light of man by the 1st National Bank -- Song: Ritual party in an alley -- luxurious jungle in which -- Song: Europa -- For the new union dead in Alabama -- Uncollected Poems (1966) -- My age from a map to illustrate that the reconstructed North Atlantic Continent has an essential Structural Unity by F.J. Fitch -- provisional fragment, congested with 3 titles -- World Box-score Cup of 1966 -- North Atlantic Turbine (1967) -- Thesis -- first note (from London -- England, its latitude and some of its conditions, the seriousness of ghosts -- Theory of Truth The North Atlantic Turbine -- Oxford -- pt. I Fornication -- pt. II In Town -- pt. III Comforted by Limestone -- pt. IV Epistolary Comment: knowing none of it accurately, the world can be surveyed -- pt. V Whit Sunday -- pt. VI Of the "English" Colonies -- On the Nature of Communication September 7, 1966 -- Wait by the door awhile Death, there are others -- morning to remember or, E pluribus unum -- Notation on the evening of November 27, 1966 -- idle visitation -- Song [Again, I am made the occurrence] -- Sundering U.P. Tracks -- Uncollected Poems (1968-1969) -- To Tom Pickard and the Newcastle Brown Beer Revolutionaries -- Song [Mydew my meadow] -- This Is the Way I Hear the Momentum -- Midwest is that Space Between the Buffalo Statler and the Lawrence Eldridge -- Notice how a vaster Crystal of Lives comes around -- Cosmology of Finding Your Place -- [It was in a dream] -- Twenty-Four Love Songs (1969) -- Songs: Set Two -- A Short Count (1970) -- Uncollected Poems (1971-1974) -- Exercise -- Osawatomie -- Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook A Microbook -- Door County -- South Dakota Time (with Jennifer Dunbar) -- Rowly Bay -- D. County aug 19th -- Salty Story by Lac Michigan -- Cove -- Wisconsin Gives Rise to a German Idea -- In a Dream -- Eight-Day Reply -- Island Projected From the MindBooth Into the Off Shore Waters of the Michigan Side, Complete with Palms and Coconut-happy Inhabitants -- What a Man He Thought of Everything -- On the Edge of the Badlands -- Impertinent Change -- How Far are you willing to go? -- Naumans -- Pure Description -- Poem Called Alexander Hamilton -- Kultchural Exchange -- oecological prophecy -- Heavy Acquisition -- Easy's Best -- [Seven Poems from Tens] -- [RAW WAR] -- Los Caballos Cimarrones -- Coinage -- Two-part Poem (with Kid -- Indicative -- Loathesome Cowboys -- Curved Glass -- Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down -- Executioner, stay thy cold blade -- Octopus Thinks with Its Arms -- History of Futures -- Stripping of the River -- Niedecker -- [Mesozoic Landscape] -- [green poems] -- Recollections Of Gran Apacheria (1974) -- First Lines -- [It is bright to recollect] -- [The first law of the desert] -- [The children of both sexes] -- [They are of many clans] -- Victorio -- Nana & Victorio -- Dress for War -- Bounty Time -- Provoking Figure of the Horsewoman -- Geronimo -- Juh & Geronimo -- Nanay -- [When Geronimo was in Washington for the Inauguration ...] -- Fifteen Hundred Tons of Hay @ 1 per Pound -- Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phratry on the Traitor Peaches -- Period Portrait of Sympathy -- [When the Boundary Commission] -- Assorted Compliments -- Reservations -- Creation -- Whole European Distinction -- Personum -- [The original monuments of perception] -- [Out of the Sunset movement] -- [So The infant is bound] -- [By the time they are let out] -- Slipping of the Wheel -- [Gen. Miles imagined] -- Immured in Florida -- La Maquina a Houston -- Gunslinger (1968-1975) -- Book I (1968) -- Book II (1969) -- Cycle (1971) -- Book III (1972) -- Book IIII (1975) -- Prolegomenon -- Manchester Square (With Jennifer Dunbar) (1975) -- Home Again -- Manchester Square -- Autumn -- Winter -- Spring -- Bond Street Stash -- Grosvenor Square -- Mount Street -- Audley -- St.
• Christopher's Place -- Carlos Place -- Backstreet Society -- Dear Herbie -- Manchester Square [Our friends portray the time here] -- Hello, La Jolla (1978) -- PREFACE -- for Ism -- Suppertime Down South -- Shifting an Interference with Nature to a Scientific Obstruction -- Del Mar -- Wet Cake -- What Will Be Historically Durable -- Upwardly Mobile, and the Backs which Provide the Ladder -- Chicken Relativity -- Opinion on a Matter of Public Safety -- Beyond the Air Bag -- Beware the Plural of Usual -- Blue and the Green: Drugs and the Market -- You're Supposed to Move Your Head, Not Your Eyes -- Sociology of Games -- In Defense of Pure Poetry -- How Can One Not Blush to Accept Pay For Defending the Country -- Alaska: In Two Parts -- Flywheel Programs -- Distraction Control -- Spuw Slang -- Period Westerns -- Matchbook Covers I'll Probably Never Publish -- On the Other Hand -- Light & Regularity -- On Stooping for Money -- Category A Footnote -- Russian Quote -- Nature of the Phone -- Routine -- Las Tycoon (A Review -- Stuff the Voice-Print -- Rauschenberg's Untitled (Early Egyptian Series -- In Which We Are Paid the Dubious Political Compliment of Opposing Messages -- Reapportionment of the Ceegar -- Sanders Quote -- Claim Inspection -- Tour of the Capital -- Thorobred Named Supreme Act -- Sirius in January -- Broughton Quote -- Short Study of Death -- Upping the Ante on Detente -- Among the Draperies of Definition -- Cobbett Quote -- Correct usages of some words widely misused or abused in modern conversation & poetry -- Baron Macaulay Quote -- Unusual Accounting Treatment -- What Is This Thing Called Contemplation -- Lending a Hand to the Inanimate -- 101: One O one, that great Zero Resting eternally between parallels -- View, From 101 -- [Easy, Oakland] -- Here and Now -- Inspection -- Don't Get Your Hopes Up -- Sense of Place -- People of Earth -- Man of Distinction -- Unremote Recombinant -- Burr Quote -- 2 Gulls Sittin On the Richmond Bridge -- Esperanto -- Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, A Variation for Dr. Christian Barnard -- Gadsden Purchase Revisited -- If Somebody Asks You Where You Come From Remember -- Variation on Vallejo's #III -- Palms, Victory, Triumph, Excellence -- Sunset -- Yellow Lola, Formerly Titled Japanese Neon (Hello, La Jolla, Book II) (1980) -- Note 1 Address -- Note 2 Procedure -- Tuesday 2 March 1976: Weather Report -- [Environmental carcinogens] -- (101) [cultural idea imbalanced] -- Rezanov film script -- [Alaska wants to be a nation] -- Loose goose, tight shoes & cold igloos -- Political? -- Discovery -- 101 [he was sidetracked] -- Fence, or the Bauhaus Outhouse -- Proposition 13 -- [Sometime, the scent of fear sweeps over us] -- Public Notice -- Trees -- [A Pontificatory use of the art] -- boundary condition -- group analysis -- Living with the enemy -- metric system -- [next year will be the 100th] -- [Recycling is an after-work recreation] -- [Recycling has grown to be] -- Bumpersticker -- [the family is] -- Rancho Canaille, or Propositions for Living with the metaphor of Cancer -- Hall of Flowers -- Suctorial -- gnawed tongues -- Torture -- Sonoma County Line: They always had a dirty sink -- Tortured -- [the sky is fixed] -- Death of Howard Hughes -- Hughes -- Rediform: 30 gal. water from corp. yd. -- Super -- In defense of Quality -- 22 January
• Note continued: One of the increasingly urgent searches in writing today is to find an adequate exclamation -- Evolution of Energy from Tennessee to Cumbria -- Wanted -- Manzanita -- [I see a lot of people] -- Jimtown -- Night Watchman, look to my flashlight -- It is dangerous to be alive -- 101 [numbers are the only entities] -- [those hunchbacks out back have a lot of crust] -- Evolution -- Grammatical problem -- Eternal Vigilance (AM 101) -- Word (20 January 1977) -- script, but not necessarily the cure -- Trailers -- People who call in are sick -- Post '76 -- Useful -- [Alaska is] -- Plague: just another Metaphysical question -- Whiner, Obnoxious as ever, at latest report -- Books I have read while Driving -- 101 [The Poet must always] -- Rape of Deer Creek as it passed thru Lot? Section etc. Plat? etc. by a hominid named Miller, a former resident of mean local reputation -- [Happiness is a violent emotion] -- [I wouldn't go back for god's foot] -- [Humanity divides neatly] -- [It is said poetry audiences] -- [One must not be guilty] -- [It's an undeniable law] -- At Jack Spicer's Bar -- Television & Children -- ["one must not be unkind"] -- [I don't give a dog turd] -- Manzanita (II) -- protest against still another empty-minded choice -- Another tobacco poem -- intellection of patterns -- [I have an excellent, if unconventional, memory] -- After-effects of WWII: Washington Square, San Francisco 1977 -- [I can believe Panama is the most] -- [1 Billion Chinese are telling me] -- [A reminder to the folks] -- Success? -- Dee Young Quote (in Boulder) -- [now & then there is a chance] -- song of the vulgar boatmen -- [At least one increase has maintained itself] -- [The caucasian horde completes] -- Alaska Revisited -- Not so bad after all -- question of appetite -- Colorado -- Whole Cars, full of dogs -- Au Barre, in The Gold Hill Inn -- poem w/a french sound -- I wish they could all be california cars -- "The Party" -- 2nd Chautauqua -- 3rd Chautauqua -- 4th Chautauqua -- 5th Chautauqua -- La Culpa -- Advice revised -- Bible -- Human Truck -- Captain Jack's Chaps Or Houston/Mla (1983) -- Essential Introductory Matter -- Deplaning, & Getting Learnt -- Piece of Advice: It is Far Better to Copter in, but Even That Way You Can Lose a Blade -- At the Cowboy Panel -- God Creates Man! -- Sunday Morning in the Murdered Territories -- Maximum Ostentation -- Some More Ostentation -- Adios to Ostentation -- Triumph of the Hominids -- Hotel Harley Down by the Bayou, As Dick prepares for New York And I turn my thoughts homeward -- Abhorrences: A Chronicle Of The Eighties (1990) -- ABHORRENCES: Baseline Vocabulary introduced by the Rawhide Era -- [Print the invasion money] -- [one bullet] -- [Every Man] -- Never Lose an Enemy, if you can help it -- Los Ochentas -- Protestant View -- Generic Eighties -- While You're at it -- Wait Till the Christians Hear About This! -- Not Good, but Getting Better: dog fights on the increase in Denver -- Apocryphal or not... -- Vulgarity of Positive Reinforcement or Putting Away Childish Things -- Casting the First Puffball -- Decision Taken with Little Thought and Even Less Pain -- Flatland -- Lemma Japonaise -- Rough Passage on I-80 -- Homo Sap -- Boulder Mundane -- World View Solipsized -- Ed Meese Scrolls -- Not So Hard Wired, but something to do -- Aid(e) Memoire -- Smoke & Cinders: Some Thoughts on the Truckers -- Touring the Bloated Void -- I'll never apologize again! -- Ice is the lead of water's gold -- Recette Economique -- Armalite Resolution -- Self Criticism -- Tuesday was a Fait Accompli, not a Raison d'Etre: an election scare story -- There's only one natural death, and even that's Bedcide: For the post-mortem amusement of Richard Brautigan -- It Could be Anyone -- Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune -- Wisconsin Hunters to the Chippewas -- Worse than Tapeworm -- Homage to Karen Carpenter -- Products which are absolutely simple to despise in our state -- He spits, therefore he is spittle -- Novels Somebody With Nothing To Do Should Write -- Evaporation as a career -- Logical Appointments: or giving the People what they want by way of giving them what they deserve -- Turk -- ["Why is wanting to kill Ronald Reagan..."] -- Another Springtime in the Rockies (for P.M. -- Calendar Girl at Eddie's -- Weather Report -- Something we can all agree on -- These Times Are Medieval -- Foreign Policy; another cheap import -- Pow-Wow in Geneva -- I like a Busy View -- America, really, No Kidding, the Beautiful -- crime depends on the judge -- Eat All You Want -- Claptrap Nomenklatura of Western Regimes -- California usage -- Stop Complaining: On not being co-opted -- Hate Without Style -- Philippine Phenomenology -- Lackey stacked upon lackey -- By Definition -- Exception for Courtroom Behavior -- Barbed Praise [I] -- Barbed Praise [II] -- Old-Fashioned Problem: Cundurango won't help -- I'm Clean, how about you? -- Why do they tell us what they tell us? -- Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont -- Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty -- Aincha sick of 'em? -- Welcome Home -- Jar Wars II -- Proprietary Rights and Patented Germs -- Cyndi Lauper -- Entropy -- Radio Nostalgia -- Every example tells a story -- On Losing One's Coolant -- America the Buick -- Condom mania: the ins and outs -- Hi Hype Budgette -- Public Service Message -- Gargling Draino -- Hazardous Sex (as distinct from "safe sex") -- Circus of Hokum or how many cookie jars make a bushel -- Coup de Guerre in a Teacup -- "An unrecorded act is not one that never took place" -- time to buy and a time to cry -- Hand Held Refrigerator -- Idle thoughts at the St Marks 20th anniversary reunion -- Differently Abled -- momentum of the excrementum -- Off the Waldheim -- Some Things Do Change -- Independent Boulder Woman -- Ibw Toenote -- Cooking the Corpse -- Would You Repeat the Question -- Martyrs Opera -- Vizutek -- Credo Alfredo -- All in the name of child-proof caps -- Dispatch from the Front -- Hatch Catch -- hazards of a later era: variation on a theme -- Silver's Up a Nickel -- Heart of Copper -- So Long Pardner, you're bound to be better than 1988 -- Nineteen Eighty Eight Maniac -- Life is a Lake of lukewarm pinkish yellow snot -- question seldom asked and never answered -- Permission Refused -- Recollections of Advice to Whiteguys -- Neolojizem -- "Handle me lustily ... ere the blood-rush cease" -- ["Where there is wealth] -- Quatrain Naboko -- Motel Superbo -- Progress: slow but inexorable -- Population Control in Boulder -- Stupid as a One way street -- Solo Pretendre -- Oecological Caution -- Summer Evening in Boulder -- Blunt Force Trauma -- Don't just stand there, get something! -- Lock the Door -- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Oh Yes I Will! -- Holy Weenies -- Smoke that Cigarette -- There-PUBlicans!!! -- result of a society composed of castaways -- Degeneration of the Greeks -- Euphemismo Inc.
• Note continued: Beat Goes On -- Coffee -- History of the Future -- Poetry Wants To Know -- Droegs -- Farewell to the Prairie -- Therapy Bombardiers -- Linear Acceleration -- Invasion of the 2nd Lumbar Region -- Garden of the White Rose -- APPENDICES, AFTERWORDS, PUBLICATION HISTORIES, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES -- Bean News (1972) -- Prefaces, Jacket Notes and Introductions -- Preface to Idaho Out -- Jacket note to Geography -- Jacket note to The North Atlantic Turbine -- Preface to Bean News -- Preface to The Collected Poems, 1956-1974 -- Preface to Recollections of Gran Apacheria -- Introductions to Yellow Lola -- Preface to Captain Jack's Chaps or Houston/MLA -- Introduction to High West Rendezvous: An Edward Dorn Sampler -- Introduction to Chemo Sabe -- Aferword / Amiri Baraka -- Afterword / J.H. Prynne -- Publication Histories -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index of Titles.

ISBN

• 9781847771261 (pbk.)
• 1847771262 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 781500455
• SCSB-10738064

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library