Chicago Review

Edward Dorn (1929-1999) should need no introduction. Regardless what readers may not know of his fugitive early and late work, his masterpiece Gunslinger (1975) remains in print, and is both "a pageant of its time" and still relevant to ours. Most...

"The extrication of self is the politic of perception" --Christopher Dewdney "[C]osmic rhythm ... since the beginning of the human race, has imbued mankind with the unconscious belief that to move with the sun is positive,...

I like it here in the southern Appalachians. It's a whole hell of a lot better than my house was in Cincinnati. Here I can sit on my front porch and look out over the mountains, watch the cars go by on the road below my porch, rock a little, read a...

By the 1990s, Ed Dorn had honed a sharp distinction between "poet" and "writer," making it clear that he was a member of the larger, more inclusive class. He is, of course, principally celebrated for his poems, in particular the modern epic, Gunslinger....

The following is a rejoinder to Don Paterson's corrosive introduction to New British Poetry, an anthology of British poets born after 1945 released on April Fools Day 2004 by Graywolf Press. Given Graywolf's stunning publicity budget ($30,000 per book,...

Thus it might be argued that when a painting is "finished," it is a compromise. But the conditions under which a compromise is made are what matters. Decisions to settle anywhere are intolerable. --Philip Guston, "Faith, Hope and Impossibility"...

We had come to Boulder from San Francisco in the fall of 1977, not planning to stay. Ed had signed a one-year contract as visiting poet at the University of Colorado, another in a series of jobs that had made us academic nomads, taking us from Lawrence,...

Zephyrus Image press in San Francisco was the brainchild of Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, two unlikely partners who produced some of the most provocative and politically engaged ephemera ever to come out of the small press scene in this country....