An essential anthology of an innovative American poetEdward 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 work.

Edward Dorn (1929-û1999) published more than forty books of poetry, prose, and translations.
Michael Rothenberg has edited collections of the poets Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, and David Meltzer for the Penguin Poets series.

Introduction	p. XV
from The New American Poetry	p. 1
The Rick of Green Wood	p. 1
Vaquero	p. 3
The Hide of My Mother	p. 4
Are They Dancing	p. 10
The Air of June Sings	p. 11
from The Newly Fallen	p. 13
Geranium	p. 13
Sousa	p. 15
Like a Message on Sunday	p. 19
Prayers for the People of the World	p. 20
If it should ever come	p. 21
from Hands Up	p. 23
Home on the Range, February, 1962	p. 23
On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck	p. 25
Los Mineros	p. 27
In My Youth I Was a Tireless Dancer	p. 29
Hemlocks	p. 30
From Gloucester Out	p. 31
from Geography	p. 37
Song: The Astronauts	p. 37
The Problem of the Poem for My Daughter, Left Unsolved	p. 39
West of Moab	p. 46
Idaho Out	p. 48
Song (This afternoon was unholy)	p. 63
Song (Christ of the sparrows Help me!)	p. 64
The Smug Never Silent Guns of the Enemy	p. 66
Mourning Letter, March 29, 1963	p. 67
Song: Venceremos	p. 68
Song: Europa	p. 71
For the New Union Dead in Alabama	p. 73
from The North Atlantic Turbine	p. 75
Thesis	p. 75
On the Nature of Communication, September 7, 1966	p. 77
Wait by the door awhile Death, there are others	p. 79
A Notation on the evening of November 27, 1966	p. 85
Song (Again, I am made the occurrence)	p. 87
The Sundering U.P. Tracks	p. 88
from Gunslinger	p. 91
Book I	p. 91
Prolegomenon to Book IIII	p. 123
Twenty-Four Love Songs	p. 125
The Kulchural Exchange	p. 138
The Cosmology of Finding Your Place	p. 141
The Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down	p. 144
Executioner, Stay Thy Cold Blade	p. 147
The Octopus Thinks with Its Arms	p. 148
The History of Futures	p. 149
The Stripping of the River	p. 150
This Is the Way I Hear the Momentum	p. 151
Mesoxoic Landscape	p. 153
Recollections of Gran Apacheria	p. 155
First Lines	p. 155
(It is bright to recollect)	p. 157
(The first law of the desert)	p. 157
(The children of both sexes)	p. 157
(They are of many clans)	p. 157
Victorio	p. 158
Nana & Victorio	p. 159
Dress for War	p. 160
Bounty Time	p. 161
The Provoking Figure of the Horsewoman	p. 162
Geronimo	p. 163
Juh & Geronimo	p. 164
Nanay	p. 165
(When Geronimo was in Washington for the Inauguration)	p. 166
Fifteen Hundred Tons of Hay @ 1[cent] per Pound	p. 166
The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phratry on the Traitor Peaches	p. 167
(And when, above Janos)	p. 168
A Period Portrait of Sympathy	p. 169
(When the Boundary Commission)	p. 170
Assorted Compliments	p. 171
Reservations	p. 172
Creation	p. 175
The Whole European Distinction	p. 177
Personum	p. 178
(The original monuments of perception)	p. 179
(Out of the sunset movement)	p. 179
(So The infant is bound)	p. 180
The Slipping of the Wheel	p. 181
La Maquina a Houston	p. 182
from Hello, La Jolla	p. 185
Shifting an Interference with Nature to a Scientific Obstruction	p. 185
Wet Cake	p. 186
What Will Be Historically Durable	p. 186
An Opinion on a Matter of Public Safety	p. 187
You're Supposed to Move Your Head, Not Your Eyes	p. 188
Alaska: in Two Parts	p. 189
The Burr Quote	p. 193
The Sociology of Games	p. 193
A Variation on Vallejo's #III	p. 194
Palms, Victory, Triumph, Excellence	p. 195
from Yellow Lola	p. 197
A Discovery	p. 197
Public Notice	p. 197
Whereas	p. 198
(Listen, if anybody out there's)	p. 198
A Mild Threat	p. 198
The Whiner, Obnoxious as ever, at latest report	p. 199
Success?	p. 199
Alaska Revisited	p. 199
Not so bad after all	p. 200
from Captain Jack's Chaps/or, Houston MLA	p. 201
Deplaning, & getting learnt	p. 201
At the Cowboy Panel	p. 203
Sunday Morning in the Murdered Territories	p. 204
Maximum Ostentation	p. 205
Hotel Hartley Down by the Bayou, As Dick prepares for New York And I turn my thoughts homeward	p. 208
from Abhorrences	p. 211
(One bullet)	p. 211
The Protestant View	p. 211
While You're at it	p. 212
Wait Till the Christians Hear About This!	p. 212
Flatland	p. 213
Rough Passage on I-80	p. 213
Recette Economique	p. 218
Armalite Resolution	p. 218
Self Criticism	p. 218
It Could be Anyone	p. 220
There's only one natural death, and even that's Bedcide For the post-mortem amusement of Richard Brautigan	p. 221
The Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune	p. 222
Another Springtime in the Rockies	p. 223
I like a Busy View	p. 223
Lackey stacked upon lackey	p. 224
An Exception for Courtroom Behavior	p. 225
I'm Clean, how about you?	p. 225
Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont	p. 226
Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty	p. 227
America the Buick	p. 229
A time to buy and a time to cry	p. 229
Martyrs Opera	p. 230
The hazards of a later era: variation on a theme	p. 231
Recollections of Advice to Whiteguys	p. 231
Progress: slow but inexorable	p. 233
Free Market Chinoiserie	p. 233
The End	p. 234
from Westward Haut	p. 235
El Peru/Cheyenne Milkplane	p. 235
Phaethon's Daughter	p. 253
Radicals on the Great Plain	p. 256
from Rocky Mountain Spine	p. 259
Montana & Montaner	p. 259
Denver Upbringing	p. 262
from Languedoc Variorum: A Defense of Heresy and Heretics	p. 265
Jerusalem	p. 266
Bogumil	p. 269
Shoko	p. 274
Tomas Torquemada-first Inquisitor General for all Spanish [Pi]ossessions and Master of the rooting out of disbelievers	p. 275
Notes on Beziers: the past as cauchemar	p. 281
Albi, a Day Trip	p. 285
Do the Simon de Monfort / Do le Busard	p. 289
Ten Years in Gaul	p. 290
Dismissal	p. 291
On the Question of God's Tolerance	p. 293
Off-the-Books in Darien	p. 295
Corsica	p. 296
Petra Kelly-recalling German Green, 1992	p. 297
Mordecai	p. 298
Sniper on the Roof: the cheap elimination of heretics	p. 299
from Chemo Sabe	p. 301
Tribe	p. 301
Sketches from Edgewater	p. 503
The Drugs Are Over-rated	p. 305
Infusion Day	p. 306
Chemo du Jour: The Impeachment on Decadron	p. 307
The Dull Relief of General Pain-Oxycontin, Roxicodone and Codeine in General	p. 310
The Decadron, Tagamit, Benadryl and Taxol Cocktail Party of 1 March 1999	p. 311
White Rabbit	p. 313
The Invasion of the 2nd Lumbar Region	p. 316
The Garden of the White Rose	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 319
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