For the first time the vast, experimental totality of Gunslinger poet Edward Dorn’s work is collected in a single volume. After studying with Charles Olson at Black Mountain College, Dorn took on the American West, developing an unmistakeable voice, ‘as evocative as a lonesome train whistle in the night’. Olson praised his ‘Shakespearean ear for syllables’. Taking his bearings from Pound and Williams, he found his own way, a pioneer in the old American way. “From near the beginning I have known my work to be theoretical in nature and poetic by virtue of its inherent tone.” Peter Ackroyd considers him ‘the only plausible, political poet in America […] one of the masters of our contemporary language.’ If Gunslinger is his major poem, the work that anticipates and surrounds it, wonderfully resourceful in tone and idiom, puts him on an equal footing with his masters.

The book includes an introduction by Jennifer Dorn, the poet’s widow, an appreciation by J.H. Prynne and an afterword by Amiri Baraka.

Cover Image: Philip Behymer, Edward Dorn. Acrylic on Canvas. 42" x 36". 1982 (photo: Jennifer Dunbar Dorn)

Edited with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, with Justin Katko, Reitha Pattison and Kyle Waugh

Preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn    xxv

EARLY POEMS (1954–1960)
Grasses    5
Relics from a Polar Cairn    5
Litany for Yellow Lamp    7
Store Scene    8
The Revival    9
Lines from a Sitting Position    9
The Rick of Green Wood    10
The Hide of My Mother    11
When the Fairies    17
A Stately Dance    18
For Ray (the 6th)    19
The 7th    20

THE NEWLY FALLEN (1961)
Geranium    23
The Sparrow Sky    24
3 Farm Poems
    1. The war    25
    2. The touch    26
    3. Goodbye to the Illinois    26
The Open Road    27
The Song    30
Sousa    31
The Biggest Killing    35
The Top List    38
The Prisoner of Bellefonte (pa)    39
Like a Message on Sunday    40
Our Camp    41
The Argument Is    42
A Country Song    43
The Common Lot    47
Prayers for the People of the World    48
For a Man    48
And Thus    49
There was a Change    50
If it should ever come    51

UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1961–1964)
Nature their passing bell: an atonement    55
An Inauguration Poem    55
An Africa Ode    57
An Address for the First Woman to Face Death in Havana    57
An Old Love    60
The poet lectures famous potatoes    60
Overture to I    61
The Mountains    62
[Pocatello is black]    63

HANDS UP! (1964)
Vaquero    67
The Deer’s Eye the Hunter’s Nose    67
Wagon Wheels    68
The Sea Corner, of the Eye    69
Trail Creek, Aug. 11, the Reason of Higher Powers    70
Home on the Range, February, 1962    72
Time to Burn    73
On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck    74
Obituary    75
The Tepee at Tomah    77
Death While Journeying    80
Ledyard: The Exhaustion of Sheer Distance    82
Los Mineros    85
In the Morning    86
The Land Below    87
Are They Dancing    104
Hawthorne, End of March, 1962    104
The Song is Ended    105
In My Youth I Was a Tireless Dancer    106
The Pronouncement    106
A Too Hopefully Bold Measure    107
The Air of June Sings    109
The Encounter    110
Hemlocks    110
Time Blonde    111
Unlike Music    112
Oh Don’t Ask why    113
A Fate of Unannounced Years    115
Hands Up    116

    FROM GLOUCESTER OUT (1964)    119

    NINE SONGS (1965)    127

GEOGRAPHY (1965)
Song: The astronauts    137
The problem of the poem for my daughter, left unsolved    138
A letter, in the meantime, not to be mailed, tonight    145
Inauguration poem #2    147
West of Moab    151
Idaho Out    153
Six views from the same window of the Northside Grocery    168
Daffodil song    171
Song [my wife is lovely]    171
Love song [for Lucia]    172
Love song [for Cathy]    172
A vague love    173
Another vague love    174
Song [Oh Gods of my disembarked soul this is sad]    174
A wild blue, yonder    175
In the shadow    175
Song [If the world]    176
A song [There is a blue sky]    177
The explanation    177
Chronicle    178
Song [So we somewhat stagger together]    179
Song [Christ of the sparrows Help me!]    180
Parlor car beer    182
Poem in five parts    182
Song [This afternoon was unholy, the sky]    185
Dark ceiling    186
This March afternoon    187
Song: Heat    188
The reception    188
Song: We shall refrain from them    190
The smug never silent guns of the enemy    191
Fort Hall obituary: A note    192
Mourning letter, March 29, 1963    193
Eugene Delacroix says    194
Song: Venceremos    196
Dwarfing with chemicals: A promising agricultural technique    198
The sense comes over me, and the waning light of man by the 1st National Bank    199
Song: Ritual party in an alley    203
A luxurious jungle in which    204
Song: Europa    205
For the new union dead in Alabama    206

UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1966)
My age from a map to illustrate that the reconstructed North Atlantic Continent has an essential Structural Unity by F.J. Fitch    211
A provisional fragment, congested with 3 titles    212
The World Box-score Cup of 1966    214

THE NORTH ATLANTIC TURBINE (1967)
Thesis    233
The first note (from London    234
England, its latitude and some of its conditions, the seriousness
of ghosts    236
A Theory of Truth The North Atlantic Turbine    240
Oxford
    Part I. Fornication    249
    Part II. In Town    252
    Part III. Comforted by Limestone    252
Part IV. An Epistolary Comment: knowing none of it accurately, the world can be surveyed    253
    Part V. Whit Sunday    259
    Part VI. Of the “English” Colonies    264
On the Nature of Communication September 7, 1966    269
Wait by the door awhile Death, there are others    270
A morning to remember or, E pluribus unum    276
A Notation on the evening of November 27, 1966    277
An idle visitation    279
Song [Again, I am made the occurrence]    282
The Sundering U.P. Tracks    283

UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1968–1969)
To Tom Pickard and the Newcastle Brown Beer Revolutionaries    287
Song [Mydew   my  meadow]    289
This Is the Way I Hear the Momentum    289
The Midwest is that Space Between the Buffalo Statler and the
Lawrence Eldridge    291
Notice how a vaster Crystal of Lives comes around    294
The Cosmology of Finding Your Place    295
[It was in a dream]    297

    TWENTY-FOUR LOVE SONGS (1969)    303

    SONGS: SET TWO—A SHORT COUNT (1970)    319

UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1971–1974)
An Exercise    331
Osawatomie    334
Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook A Microbook    339
Door County—South Dakota Time (with Jennifer Dunbar)
Rowly Bay    341
D. County aug 19th    342
Salty Story by Lac Michigan    342
Cove    342
Wisconsin Gives Rise to a German Idea    342
In a Dream    342
The Eight-Day Reply    343
An Island Projected From the MindBooth Into the Off Shore
Waters of the Michigan Side, Complete with Palms and
Coconut-happy Inhabitants    343
What a Man He Thought of Everything    344
On the Edge of the Badlands    344
An Impertinent Change    344
How Far are you willing to go?    345
The Naumans    345
Pure Description    345
The Poem Called Alexander Hamilton    346
The Kultchural Exchange    347
an oecological prophecy    350
Heavy Acquisition    352
Easy’s Best    353
[Seven Poems from Tens]
    [RAW   WAR]    354
    Los Caballos Cimarrones    354
    Coinage    354
    Two-part Poem (with Kid    354
    Indicative    355
    The Loathesome Cowboys    355
    Curved Glass    355
The Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down    356
Executioner, stay thy cold blade    358
The Octopus Thinks with Its Arms    359
The History of Futures    359
The Stripping of the River    361
Niedecker    361
[Mesozoic Landscape]    362
[green poems]    363

RECOLLECTIONS OF GRAN APACHERÍA (1974)
First Lines    367
[It is bright to recollect]    368
[The first law of the desert]    368
[The children of both sexes]    368
[They are of many clans]    368
Victorio    369
Nana & Victorio    369
Dress for War    370
Bounty Time    370
The Provoking Figure of the Horsewoman    371
Geronimo    371
Juh & Geronimo    372
Nanay    372
[When Geronimo was in Washington for the Inauguration ...]    373
Fifteen Hundred Tons of Hay @ 1¢ per Pound    373
The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phratry on the Traitor Peaches    374
A Period Portrait of Sympathy    375
[When the Boundary Commission]    375
Assorted Compliments    376
Reservations    376
Creation    379
The Whole European Distinction    381
Personum    381
[The original monuments of perception]    382
[Out of the Sunset movement]    382
[So    The infant is bound]    382
[By the time they are let out]    383
The Slipping of the Wheel    383
[Gen. Miles imagined]    384
Immured in Florida
La Máquina a Houston    384

GUNSLINGER (1968–1975)
Book I (1968)    389
Book II (1969)    431
The Cycle (1971)    475
Book III (1972)    499
Book IIII (1975)    531
    Prolegomenon    533

MANCHESTER SQUARE (with Jennifer Dunbar) (1975)
Home Again    591
Manchester Square
Autumn    591
Winter    592
Spring    592
Bond Street Stash    592
Grosvenor Square    593
Mount Street    593
Audley    594
St. Christopher’s Place    594
Carlos Place    595
Backstreet Society    596
Dear Herbie    597
Manchester Square [Our friends portray the time here]    597
HELLO, LA JOLLA (1978)
PREFACE    599
A for Ism    599
Suppertime Down South    601
Shifting an Interference with Nature to a Scientific Obstruction    601
Del Mar    602
Wet Cake    602
What Will Be Historically Durable    603
The Upwardly Mobile, and the Backs which Provide the Ladder    603
Chicken Relativity    604
An Opinion on a Matter of Public Safety    604
Beyond the Air Bag    604
Beware the Plural of Usual    605
The Blue and the Green: Drugs and the Market    605
You’re Supposed to Move Your Head, Not Your Eyes    606
The Sociology of Games    607
In Defense of Pure Poetry    607
How Can One Not Blush to Accept Pay For Defending the Country    607
ALASKA: in Two Parts    608

Flywheel Programs
Distraction Control    612
Spuw Slang    612
Period Westerns    612
Matchbook Covers I’ll Probably Never Publish    613
On the Other Hand    613
Light & Regularity    613
On Stooping for Money    614
Category A Footnote    614
The Russian Quote    614
The Nature of the Phone    614
Routine    615
The Las Tycoon (A Review    615
Stuff the Voice-Print    615
Rauschenberg’s Untitled (Early Egyptian Series    615
In Which We Are Paid the Dubious Political Compliment of
Opposing Messages    616
Reapportionment of the Ceegar    616
The Sanders Quote    616
Claim Inspection    617
A Tour of the Capital    617
A Thorobred Named Supreme Act    617
Sirius in January    617
The Broughton Quote    617
A Short Study of Death    618
Upping the Ante on Detente    618

Among the Draperies of Definition
The Cobbett Quote    618
Correct usages of some words widely misused or abused in modern conversation & poetry    618
The Baron Macaulay Quote    621
An Unusual Accounting Treatment    621
What Is This Thing Called Contemplation    622
Lending a Hand to the Inanimate    623

1 0 1: One O one, that great Zero Resting eternally between parallels
A View, From 101    624
[Easy, Oakland]    624
Here and Now    625
Inspection    625
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up    625
A Sense of Place    626
People of Earth    626
Man of Distinction    626
An Unremote Recombinant    626
The Burr Quote    627
2 Gulls Sittin On the Richmond Bridge    627
Esperanto    627
Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, A Variation for Dr. Christian Barnard    628
The Gadsden Purchase Revisited    628
If Somebody Asks You Where You Come From Remember    629
A Variation on Vallejo’s #III    629
Palms, Victory, Triumph, Excellence    630
Sunset    630
    
YELLOW LOLA, FORMERLY TITLED JAPANESE NEON
(HELLO, LA JOLLA, BOOK II) (1980)
Note 1: The Address    633
Note 2: The Procedure    633
Tuesday 2 March 1976: Weather Report    633
[Environmental carcinogens]    633
(101) [cultural idea imbalanced]    634
The Rezanov film script    634
[Alaska wants to be a nation]    634
Loose goose, tight shoes & cold igloos    634
Political?    635
A Discovery    635
101 [he was sidetracked]    635
The Fence, or the Bauhaus Outhouse    636
Proposition 13    636
[Sometime, the scent of fear sweeps over us]    636
Public Notice    636
Trees    637
[A Pontificatory use of the art]    637
the boundary condition    637
group analysis    637
Living with the enemy    638
The metric system    638
[next year will be the 100th]    638
[Recycling is an after-work recreation]    639
[Recycling has grown to be]    639
Bumpersticker    639
[the family is]    639
Rancho Canaille, or Propositions for Living with the metaphor
of Cancer    640
Hall of Flowers    640
Suctorial    640   
gnawed tongues    640
Torture    641
The Sonoma County Line: They always had a dirty sink    641
Tortured    641
[the sky is fixed]    641
The Death of Howard Hughes    642
Hughes    642
Rediform: 30 gal. water from corp. yd.    642
Super    642
In defense of Quality    643
22 January    643
One of the increasingly urgent searches in writing today is to find
an adequate exclamation    643
The Evolution of Energy from Tennessee to Cumbria    644
Wanted    645
Manzanita    645
[I see a lot of people]    645
Jimtown    646
Night Watchman, look to my flashlight    646
It is dangerous to be alive    646
101 [numbers are the only entities]    646
[those hunchbacks out back have a lot of crust]    647
Evolution    647
Grammatical problem    647
Eternal Vigilance (AM 101)    647
The Word (20 January 1977)    648
the script, but not necessarily the cure    648
Trailers    648
People who call in are sick    648
Post ’76    649
Useful    649
[Alaska is]    649
The Plague: just another Metaphysical question    649
The Whiner, Obnoxious as ever, at latest report    650
Books I have read while Driving    650
101 [The Poet must always]    650
The Rape of Deer Creek as it passed thru Lot ? Section etc. Plat ? etc.
by a hominid named Miller, a former resident of mean local
reputation    651
[Happiness is a violent emotion]    651
[I wouldn’t go back for god’s foot]    651
[Humanity divides neatly]    651
[It is said poetry audiences]    652
[One must not be guilty]    652
[It’s an undeniable law]    652
At Jack Spicer’s Bar    652
Television & Children    653
[“one must not be unkind”]    653
[I don’t give a dog turd]    653
Manzanita (II)    654
A protest against still another empty-minded choice    654
Another tobacco poem    655
The intellection of patterns    655
[I have an excellent, if unconventional, memory]    655
After-effects of WWII: Washington Square, San Francisco 1977    656
[I can believe Panama is the most]    656
[1 Billion Chinese are telling me]    656
[A reminder to the folks]    656
Success?    657
The Dee Young Quote (in Boulder)    657
[now & then there is a chance]    657
The song of the vulgar boatmen    657
[At least one increase has maintained itself]    658
[The caucasian horde completes]    658
Alaska Revisited    658
Not so bad after all    658
A question of appetite    659
Colorado    659
Whole Cars, full of dogs    659
Au Barre, in The Gold Hill Inn    659
a poem w/a french sound    659
I wish they could all be california cars    660
“The Party”    660
2nd Chautauqua    661
3rd Chautauqua    661
4th Chautauqua    661
5th Chautauqua    662
La Culpa    662
Advice revised    662
The Bible    662
The Human Truck    663

CAPTAIN JACK’S CHAPS OR HOUSTON/MLA (1983)
Essential Introductory Matter    667
DEPLANING, & getting learnt    669
A Piece of Advice: It is Far Better to Copter in, but Even That Way
You Can Lose a Blade    670
At the Cowboy Panel    671
GOD CREATES MAN!    672
Sunday Morning in the Murdered Territories    673
Maximum Ostentation    673
Some More Ostentation    676
Adios to Ostentation    677
The Triumph of the Hominids    678
Hotel Harley Down by the Bayou, As Dick prepares for New York
And I turn my thoughts homeward.    679

ABHORRENCES: A CHRONICLE OF THE EIGHTIES (1990)
ABHORRENCES: Baseline Vocabulary introduced by the
Rawhide Era    683
[Print the invasion money]    684
[one bullet]    684
[Every Man]    684
Never Lose an Enemy, if you can help it    684
Los Ochentas    685
The Protestant View:    685
Generic Eighties    685
While You’re at it    685
Wait Till the Christians Hear About This!    686
Not Good, but Getting Better: dog fights on the increase in Denver.    686
Apocryphal or not ...    687
The Vulgarity of Positive Reinforcement or Putting Away
Childish Things    687
Casting the First Puffball    688
A Decision Taken with Little Thought and Even Less Pain    688
Flatland    689
Lemma Japonaise    689
Rough Passage on I-80    690
Homo Sap:    695
Boulder Mundane    695
World View Solipsized    696
The Ed Meese Scrolls    696
Not So Hard Wired, but something to do    696
Aid(e) Memoire    697
Smoke & Cinders: Some Thoughts on the Truckers    697
Touring the Bloated Void    698
I’ll never apologize again!    698
Ice is the lead of water’s gold    699
Recette Economique    699
Armalite Resolution    699
Self Criticism    700
Tuesday was a Fait Accompli, not a Raison d’Etre: an election scare story
    701
There’s only one natural death, and even that’s Bedcide: For the
post-mortem amusement of Richard Brautigan    702
It Could be Anyone    703
The Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune    703
The Wisconsin Hunters to the Chippewas    704
Worse than Tapeworm    705
Homage to Karen Carpenter    705
Products which are absolutely simple to despise in our state    706
He spits, therefore he is spittle    707
Novels Somebody With Nothing To Do Should Write    707
Evaporation as a career    708
Logical Appointments: or giving the People what they want by way of giving them what they deserve    708
The Turk    709
[“Why is wanting to kill Ronald Reagan...”]    709
Another Springtime in the Rockies (for P.M.    710
The Calendar Girl at Eddie’s    710
Weather Report    711
Something we can all agree on    711
These Times Are Medieval    712
Foreign Policy; another cheap import    712
Pow-Wow in Geneva    712
I like a Busy View    713
America, really, No Kidding, the Beautiful.    713
The crime depends on the judge    714
Eat All You Want    714
The Claptrap Nomenklatura of Western Regimes    715
California usage    715
Stop Complaining: On not being co-opted    716
Hate Without Style    716
Philippine Phenomenology    717
Lackey stacked upon lackey    717
By Definition    717
An Exception for Courtroom Behavior    718
Barbed Praise [I]    718
Barbed Praise [II]    718
An Old-Fashioned Problem: Cundurango won’t help    719
I’m Clean, how about you?    719
Why do they tell us what they tell us?    720
Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old
Boy in Vermont    721
Ode on the Facelifting of the “statue” of Liberty    722
Aincha sick of ’em?    723
Welcome Home    724
Jar Wars II    725
Proprietary Rights and Patented Germs    725
Cyndi Lauper    727
Entropy    727
Radio Nostalgia    727
Every example tells a story    728
On Losing One’s Coolant    728
America the Buick    728
Condom mania: the ins and outs    729
Hi Hype Budgette    730
The Public Service Message    730
Gargling Draino    731
Hazardous Sex (as distinct from “safe sex”)    731
A Circus of Hokum or how many cookie jars make a bushel    732
A Coup de Guerre in a Teacup    732
“An unrecorded act is not one that never took place”    732
A time to buy and a time to cry    733
Hand Held Refrigerator    734
Idle thoughts at the St Marks 20th anniversary reunion    734
The Differently Abled    734
The momentum of the excrementum    735
Off the Waldheim    735
Some Things Do Change    736
The Independent Boulder Woman    736
IBW toenote    738
Cooking the Corpse    739
Would You Repeat the Question    739
Martyrs Opera    740
Vizutek    740
Credo Alfredo    741
All in the name of child-proof caps    741
A Dispatch from the Front    742
The Hatch Catch    745
the hazards of a later era: variation on a theme    745
Silver’s Up a Nickel    746
Heart of Copper    747
So Long Pardner, you’re bound to be better than 1988    747
Nineteen Eighty Eight Maniac    748
Life is a Lake of lukewarm pinkish yellow snot    748
A question seldom asked and never answered    748
Permission Refused    749
Recollections of Advice to Whiteguys    749
Neolojizem    750
“Handle me lustily ... ere the blood-rush cease”    751
[“Where there is wealth]    751
Quatrain Naboko    752
Motel Superbo    752
Progress: slow but inexorable    753
Population Control in Boulder    753
Stupid as a One way street    754
Solo Pretendre    754
Oecological Caution    755
A Summer Evening in Boulder    755
Blunt Force Trauma    756
Don’t just stand there, get something!    757
Lock the Door    758
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Oh Yes I Will!    758
Holy Weenies    759
Smoke that Cigarette    759
The re-PUBlicans!!!    760
The result of a society composed of castaways    762
The Degeneration of the Greeks    763
Euphemismo Inc.    764
Don’t give up, it’s only natural    764
Rushdie Bumper Sticker    765
Mediocre Friday    765
The Sin Casas    766
Jim Wright    766
When Values Get Relative, Value Gets Going    767
Free Market Chinoiserie    768
Come to SOUTH AMERICA a Continental Theme Park    769
Routines, Immane proceedings, Handclaps    770
Panama:    770
A prayer for the destruction of all their works    771
The End    772

THE DENVER LANDING—11 AUG 1993 (1993)
Prolog    775
Awful Rumors    776
The Great Muddy    777
Up the Platte    778
The Final Approach to Denland    778

from WESTWARD HAUT [formerly HI PLANE: A SAGA OF THE CROSSING] (1986–1999)
El Peru/Cheyenne Milkplane
Proläg    783
Aboard the Tan Am with Odin, a Dog of Judgement    784
Across the Cold Hiss of the Nightflight Odin Enters the Downlink    799
The Runaway Truck    802
Phaëthon’s Daughter    802
Ascending the Platte    804
Radicals on the Great Plain    806

from LANGUEDOC VARIORUM:
A DEFENSE OF HERESY & HERETICS
[formerly LANGUE D’OC AROUND THE CLOC] (1992–1999)
Jerusalem    813
Bogumil    816
Shoko    821
TOMÁS TORQUEMADA—first Inquisitor General for all Spanish
∏ossessions and Master of the rooting out of disbelievers.    822
Notes on Béziers: the past as cauchemar    828
Albi, a Day Trip    832
Do the Simon de Montfort / Do le Busard    836
Ten Years in Gaul    837
Rome    838
Couvertoirade    839
On the Question of God’s Tolerance    840
Quelle Cité!    842
Millennial Miasma    843
OH NO! SHOKO!    844
Aigues Mortes    845
Avignon—the 2nd Babylonian Captivity    846
Dusk in Montpellier: a recollection prompted by Sharik, Bulgakov’s
surgically transformed Dog.    847
Dismissal    848
Off-the-Books in Darien    849
Ah yes, Columbus Day, no mail    850
Fourteen Ninety Two: thoughts on the Genoan    850
Modern times à la Plage de Palombaggia    852
Bonifacio    852
Paoli    853
Le Drouot à Metro Richelieu (23 Juin, 1992)    854
Scarlatina    856
Petra Kelly—recalling German Green, 1992    856
Mordecai    857
Sniper on the Roof: the cheap elimination of heretics    858

LOW COUPS AND HAUT COUPS (1995–1998)
How the Confederacy Finally Won the War (the birth of a
franchise)    863
The Future as Fatal    863
Ambrose Bierce Studies the globe    864
The Traffic Report    864
Low Coupe Bumper Sticker    864
No Ideas in Things    864
HI COO    865
Early Modern    865
The Way We Are    865
No Coup    865
Way Coup (with the help of T.R.)    866
Another Modest Proposal    866
Usurae Usurarum    866
Peace with Violence    867
Low Coup, Long Overdue    867
Slow Coup    867
Beau Coup    867
Coups Noirs    868

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPINE (1995–1998)
Montana & Montaner    871
Denver Upbringing    873
Leaving Rawlins    875
Yellowstone    877

UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1997–1999)
The pilgrimage, Christmas Day, Jamayca, 1997    881
The Screwball Crosses the Square    882
Dunlap ‘tired, alienated’    884
Methodist child—Slow train through Denver    885
Open Letter to the Apache Nation    886

CHEMO SÁBE (2001)
House Arrest    891
Sketches from Edgewater    891
Tribe    893
The Drugs Are Over-rated    894
Infusion Day    895
Chemo du Jour: The Impeachment on Decadron    896
The Dull Relief of General Pain—Oxycontin, Roxicodone and
Codeine in General    899
Denver Dawn: With Ceiling Fan    900
The Decadron, Tagamit, Benadryl and Taxol Cocktail Party of
1 March 1999    900
White Rabbit    902
Prilosec    904
Iodine Fire    905
Enhancement    906
The Beat Goes On    906
Coffee    907
The History of the Future    907
Poetry Wants To Know    908
Droegs    908
Farewell to the Prairie    908
Therapy Bombardiers    909
Linear Acceleration    909
The Invasion of the 2nd Lumbar Region    911
The Garden of the White Rose    912

APPENDICES, AFTERWORDS, PUBLICATION HISTORIES,
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES
Bean News (1972)    915
Prefaces, Jacket Notes and Introductions
Preface to Idaho Out     923
Jacket note to Geography     924
Jacket note to The North Atlantic Turbine     924
Preface to Bean News     926
Preface to The Collected Poems, 1956–1974     926
Preface to Recollections of Gran Apachería    927
Introductions to Yellow Lola    928
Preface to Captain Jack’s Chaps or Houston/MLA    928
Introduction to High West Rendezvous: An Edward Dorn Sampler     929
Introduction to Chemo Sábe    931
Aferword by Amiri Baraka    933
Afterword by J.H. Prynne    938
Publication Histories    942
Bibliography and Further Reading    958
Index of Titles    963
Index of First Lines    980