[New-Poetry] Dorn and that Obscure College

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/22/2007 7:44:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
Opus40-01 at opus40.org writes:

But what  I find odd is the teaser: "Poems new and old from Ed Dorn, who 
was always  identified with an experimental college in North Carolina."

Is Black  Mountain so forgotten?


 
3.4 Million Google hits.
I think Black Mountain continues to grow in its mystique. And even as  so 
many associated with it have died, the influence continues. I  can't think of any 
artist colony or school or heydey (like San Francisco  in 50/60s) that rivals 
its revered and almost mythological status in  the history of American arts 
and letters. If an artist or poet who attended  or taught there is featured in 
a article or essay, it's almost a  lock that the Black Mountain pedigree will 
arise in the first few  sentences of the piece...as it did with Kleinzahler's 
review of Dorn.
Finnegan




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