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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Edward Dorn papers
Identifier/Call Number: M1514
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1946-1962
Abstract: This collection contains Dorn's fiction and non-fiction prose manuscripts, poetry manuscripts, unpublished works, and correspondence
with other writers such as Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, Denise Levertov, and Philip Whalen.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html.
Language of Material:
English
.
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in 2006.
Edward Dorn, one of the poets that emerged from legendary Black Mountain College in the 1950s, was born in Villa Grove, Illinois.
He attended the University of Illinois and Eastern Illinois University before going to Black Mountain in 1951, where he studied
with Charles Olson. He has taught at several universities, including Idaho State University at Pocatello, the University of
Essex, the University of California at Riverside and at La Jolla, and the University of Colorado. In the meantime, over the
course of numerous volumes, he has written with the uncompromising commitment and persistent originality of a truly distinguished
poet. With the publication of The Collected Poems: 1956-1974 (1975) and the complete long poem Gunslinger (published as Slinger
in 1975), each of which makes more widely available works previously in limited circulation, it is unlikely Edward Dorn will
remain primarily the concern of an intimate audience, as he was during the 1970s. Readers increasingly speak of him as one
of the outstanding poets of his generation, and his writing warrants that recognition.
(Cited from Dictionary of Literary Biography, 3/29/2012)
[identification of item], Edward Dorn papers (M1514). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
The Dorn papers are arranged by prose works, poetry works, and by correspondent.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American literature -- 20th century.