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Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999, aged 70) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is Gunslinger . Overview. Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression.
Edward Dorn was a poet of the West who wrote about politics, history, and culture in a vernacular and erudite style. He is best known for his four-volume epic Slinger, a fantasy journey across America with a talking horse and a madam.
With the death of Edward Dorn the United States loses not only one of its finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and cultural commentator. Dorn was born in rural Illinois at the start of the Great Depression, in poverty.
WITH THE death of Edward Dorn, the United States loses not only one of its finest poets, but a rare critical intelligence and cultural commentator. Dorn was born in rural Illinois in 1929, at the...
Dec 15, 1999 · Edward Dorn, creative poet and educator best remembered for his epic five-volume poem “Gunslinger,” which has been likened to a Western American “Canterbury Tales,” is dead at 70. Dorn, leader of...
Edward Dorn was born in eastern Illinois at the start of the Great Depression. He once wrote he was “brought up off and on during / the intensity of depression nomadism,” and his hardscrabble early existence informed his poetics. According to Tom Clark, Dorn’s biographer,...
Introduction to Edward Dorn. Edward Dorn (1929–1999) wrote poetry, fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and translations, all from a position outside the centers of power of our time but close enough to see them clearly and to indict their control over our lives.
