[New-Poetry] Dorn reviewed by Kleinzahler in NYT Book Review

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_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Kleinzahler.t.html_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Kleinzahler.t.html) 
 
Ed Dorn’s poetry fits roughly into three periods: the early, Black  
Mountain-influenced poems; the long poem in four parts, alternately titled  “Gunslinger”
 and “Slinger”; and the later poems, chiefly epigrammatic, satiric  and 
political.
 
The best work is the early work, written in his late 20s and early 30s. Six  
uncollected poems, all beauties, appeared in Donald Allen’s “The New American 
 Poetry, 1945-1960” — these would have been, for most readers, the first  
encounter with Dorn’s work. This was followed by the publication of two  
collections from LeRoi Jones’s Totem Press, “The Newly Fallen” and “Hands Up!,”  
issued in 1962 and 1963.
 
 



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