To Eliminate the Draw
Edward Dorn's Slinger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9590987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mario Davidson (0000-0002-0638-7096, corresponding author), Michael Davidson (0000-0002-4698-1719) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443 |
| Publication date | 1981-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2926230 |
| OpenAlex | W2321890672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
W 7 HEN Charles Olson set out to delineate texts and contexts about America for his Black Mountain student, Edward Dorn, he emphasized those works which invert the traditional terms for personal, spiritual, and political life. Rather than study the purely physical Olson proposed a study of the human universe, stressing that for any historical study, is not how much one knows but in what field of context it is retained, and used.1 Obviously the Bibliography on America for Ed was intended to do more than provide a reading list. It suggested a radical re-thinking of place as characterized by its linear history, geography, discoveries, and warfare. Authors recommended by Olson like Carl Sauer, Leo Frobenius, Alfred North Whitehead, Frederick Merk, Brooks Adams or Katherine Coman, offered a methodology for studying and presenting historical data in some determinate relation to one's immediate concerns-the writing of poems, for example.2 Dorn responded to Olson's advice by taking the American West as his chosen area and researching the lore of its discovery, development, and exploitation. His poetry of the mid-fifties to late sixties deals with the iron locomotives and shovels, hand tools / And barbed wire motives' behind the settlement of the frontier. Its
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |