| ĞA Pageant of Its Timeğ: Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties Contributor(s): Baker, Peter Nicholas (Editor), Elmborg, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820433209 ISBN-13: 9780820433202 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 96017601 |
| Series: Studies in Modern Poetry |
| Physical Information: 143 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |