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Dorn, Ed (1929–1999) By Spong, Stephanie

DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1113-1
Published: 01/10/2016
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Born in southern Illinois, Edward Merton Dorn marked the trail westward for the Black Mountain poets. He followed the advice of mentor Charles Olson (1910–1970) ‘to dig’ a subject tirelessly to understand the broader strokes of poetry, politics, race and economics in the mid-twentieth century.

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Spong, Stephanie. Dorn, Ed (1929–1999). Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/dorn-ed-1929-1999.

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