Background
Edward Merton Dorn was born on April 2, 1929, in Villa Grove, Illinois, United States.
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States
In 1949 Edward Menton Dom briefly attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
(The poems in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of...)
The poems in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses have been popular ever since the book's first appearance more than one hundred years ago, and none more so than "My Shadow," a traditional favorite for reading aloud. Glenna Lang has created a visual narrative depicting a young girl's travels through a dream nightscape with her shadow companion. Beautifully true to the sense and spirit of Stevenson's work, the illustrations add their own grace and rich atmosphere to Stevenson's popular poem. This edition of My Shadow is a wonderful way to enjoy an old favorite bedtime poem with the youngest child.
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1969
(The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward...)
The result of a 20-year collaboration between poet Edward Dorn and scholar Gordon Brotherston, The Sun Unwound gathers together the disparate voices of oppressed Americans through the centuries: the hymns, songs, and prayers of Mesoamericans and other native peoples; the verse of eight Latin American guerrillas of the 1960’s; and works by three of Latin America’s most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth century. The Native Americans saw their cultures obliterated, most of the guerrillas died in their struggles, and the modernists have faced persecution, prison, and torture for their left-wing convictions. Previously untranslated or unavailable to most North Americans, their poems offer a striking counterpoint to the colonialist, capitalist, Anglo-Saxon ethos.
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1999
(The first definitive collected edition of American poet E...)
The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn’s writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn’s epic poem Gunslinger, this collection - which is both wonderfully resourceful in tone and idiom - puts Edward Dorn on an equal footing with his masters.
https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Edward-Dorn-Writing/dp/1847771262/?tag=2022091-20
2012
Edward Merton Dorn was born on April 2, 1929, in Villa Grove, Illinois, United States.
Edward Menton Dom briefly attended the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1949 before transferring to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in 1954.
In 1959 Edward Merton Dorn was a reference librarian in the New Mexico State Library in Santa Fe. He lectured at Idaho State University, Pocatello, from 1961 to 1965. During the 1960s he lectured in English and writing at several universities, including Idaho State and the University of Essex (from 1965 to 1968 and 1974 to 1975) in Colchester, England, where he had a Fulbright scholarship. During those years Dorn wrote several books of poetry including The Newly Fallen, Idaho Out, and Geography. From 1968 to 1969 he was a visiting poet at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
In 1968 his epic poem Gunslinger was published, followed the next year by Gunslinger: Book II. Gunslinger was praised for its narratives and hailed as an American version of Canterbury Tales, receiving strong reviews from numerous critics. The poem features a small cast of characters that includes a cowboy, saloon madam, and a talking horse. The group travel to Las Vegas in search of Howard Hughes, whom they view as a robber-baron and indicative of all that is wrong with the world. When the poem was reprinted in the late 1980s it still was viewed favorably, with many critics saying Dorn’s work held up well and was as pointed a commentary as it had been when it was first released. Although much of his work contained little or no punctuation and frequently mixed jargon and phrases from different types of speech, it didn’t seem problematic for readers.
Edward Dorn taught at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago from 1970 to 1971 and Kent State University, Ohio, from 1973 to 1974. Dorn served as Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside, from 1973 to 1974. In 1976 he had been a writer-in-residence at the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla. Dorn continued teaching while he wrote, and after working at schools in California he moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1977, where he headed the creative writing program for more than twenty years.
During the 1990s, after a teaching exchange visit to Paul Valery University in Montpellier inspired an interest in the Cathars of Southern France, he started working on Languedoc Variorum: A Defense of Heresy and Heretics. He was also writing another long narrative poem Westward Haut. During the last two and a half years of his life, he wrote the poems for the posthumously published Chemo Sabe, reporting on his cancer treatments.
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2012Charles Olson greatly influenced Edward Merton Dorn's literary worldview and his sense of himself as poet.
Edward Merton Dorn was married twice. His first wife's name is Helene Buck. His second wife was Jennifer Dunbar. From his first marriage he had a son, and from second marriage he had a son, and a daughter.