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Known to all interesting poets of the 1960s, Ed Dorn's 'Gunslinger' was ahead of the game—in ways which could hardly be named at the time tho they could be recognized-"a turn away from the mono-logic lyric of mid-century to the dialogic 'parapoem' of fin de siecle, with its amalgam of 'theory' & lyric, of prose narrative & sound-text, & especially of citation embedded in or superimposed upon the speech of a particular self' (says Ma Perloff in the folksy lingo we know as today's). Jokey, high-spirited & good-tempered, amicably iconcoclastic. |
