«A Pageant of Its Time»: Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820433202)

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.

Author: Peter Nicholas Baker,James Elmborg
ISBN-10: 0820433209
ISBN-13: 9780820433202
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1998
Pages: 143
Format: Hardcover