A COLLECTED POEMS of Edward Dorn, the American poet who died in 1999, is a necessary and overdue publication, and, whatever the circumstances, the fact that it was not published in U.S.A. suggests that there is something very wrong with the local culture over there, a fact of which Ed Dorn was very much aware. In fact most of the time it dominated his writing.
http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/02/dorn-1/
Not Enough
Lawrence Ferlinghetti on his new book, the old days, and why poetry needs to be beat up.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/245690
Don Draper reads Frank O’Hara in Mad Men
“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.”
2 comments:
Dorn was such a huge influence on American poetry, it figures he would be marginalized by the MFA dominants. Not enough stuff about his feelings I guess. Anybody study with him at Kent State?
I studied with Ed in Boulder. He was my
master's thesis advisor and teacher. I was lucky. I am very lucky.
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