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«A Pageant of Its Time»: Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties

«A Pageant of Its Time»: Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties

Elmborg, James
Baker, Peter Nicholas

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Modern Poetry, Book 6

Literary CriticismAnthropologyGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0820433209
ISBN13: 9780820433202
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Mar 1 1998
Pages: 143
Language: English
Edward Dorn's Gunslinger constitutes one of the most significant, and underacknowledged, poetic achievements of the last half of the twentieth century. Written during the years 1967-1974, the poem reacts with intelligence and humor to the varying moods of its complex times. This study - the first critical discussion of the entire narrative poem - explores the poet's treatment of life in the sixties. The author argues that Gunslinger is best read as a reaction to the state of the nation in the 1960s. The poem chronicles the rise and fall of the counterculture and provides a running commentary on the noble aspirations and pretensions of the revolutionary counterculture.

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