[New-Poetry] Dorn and that Obscure College

[TheOldMole]

Kleinzahler certainly knows about Black Mountain. I was wondering about 
whoever wrote the teaser.

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> 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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