{"id":10204,"date":"2013-04-07T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10204"},"modified":"2013-04-07T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:26:37","slug":"iain-sinclair-on-ed-dorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/iain-sinclair-on-ed-dorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain Sinclair on Ed Dorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dorn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10207 lazyload\" alt=\"dorn\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dorn.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"265\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dorn.jpg 454w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dorn-300x175.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 454px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 454\/265;\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s an excellent\u00a0 review (& more) of Ed Dorn\u2019s <em>Collected Poems<\/em> by Iain Sinclair in the current issue of the <strong>London <\/strong><strong>Review of <\/strong><strong>Book<\/strong>. Below the opening paragraph. Unhappily you need to be a subscriber (& that\u2019s a worthwhile thing to be, see below) to have full access (or pick up a paper copy in a good bookshop) See also Peter Riley\u2019s review, <a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9840\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<hgroup>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dysfunctional Troglodytes with Mail-Order Weaponry<\/h3>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"Edward Dorn: Collected Poems.\" data-src=\"http:\/\/fortnightlyreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dorn_cp.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"219\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/219;\" \/><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<blockquote>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Click here to buy this book at the London Review Bookshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lrbshop.co.uk\/product.php?productid=55836&utm_source=LRB&utm_medium=BNbutton&utm_campaign=BuyNow\">Buy<\/a><cite>Collected Poems<\/cite> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/search?author=Dorn,+Edward\">Edward Dorn<\/a><br \/>\nCarcanet, 995\u00a0pp, \u00a325.00, November 2012, ISBN\u00a0978\u00a01\u00a084777\u00a0126\u00a01<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"OA_a893e25d\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"\">\n<div id=\"beacon_78945893a3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.lrb.co.uk\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=555&campaignid=205&zoneid=20&loc=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lrb.co.uk%2Fv35%2Fn07%2Fiain-sinclair%2Fdysfunctional-troglodytes-with-mail-order-weaponry&cb=78945893a3\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The publication in Britain of Edward Dorn\u2019s <em>Collected Poems<\/em> is a big moment, a bonfire of the verities, for the embattled tribe of local enthusiasts, veterans of old poetry wars who are still, more or less, standing. Dorn\u2019s face is news again, live and loud, on a cover laid out like a wanted poster, or the freeze-frame of a sun-bounced downhill skier, against a backcloth of enlarged script (his own words, not the usual blizzard of corporate logos). Here, cooling us out, is the essential leanness, the string and sinew of a Clint Eastwood with more candlepower and a much fiercer obligation to his nonconformist talent. Ed wrote his own one-liners. He wrote them, hand tied to the wheel like Count Dracula\u2019s Whitby helmsman, as he commuted down 101 to a seasonal teaching job in San Diego. \u2018A rather open scrawl,\u2019 he said, \u2018while one\u2019s eyes are fixed to the road is the only trick to be mastered.\u2019 He could hit it, when he chose, in a couple of lines. \u2018The duty of every honest American\/is to emigrate.\u2019 \u2018Recycling has grown to be\/a major part of the pollution industry.\u2019 The face on the Carcanet cover is a deeply scored calligraphy of experience, framed by rock-starish lightly silvered hair and reflective shades, behind which eyes that miss nothing flick from side to side, tracking through the exploitable sets of a working life: railside Illinois, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, a film festival in Havana, San Francisco, Rome, Avignon, Paris, London, Colchester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.lrb.co.uk\/www\/delivery\/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=555__zoneid=20__cb=78945893a3__oadest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mylrb.co.uk%2FHedPba01GL%3F__utma%3D1.388243715.1365343424.1365343424.1365343424.1%26__utmb%3D1.16.10.1365343424%26__utmc%3D1%26__utmx%3D-%26__utmz%3D1.1365343424.1.1.utmcsr%3Dbing%7Cutmccn%3D%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd%3Dorganic%7Cutmctr%3Dlrb%26__utmv%3D-%26__utmk%3D190741803\" target=\"_self\">This book review is only available to subscribers of the <i>London Review of Books<\/i>. Subscribe\u00a0now to access the full article, as well as the entire LRB archive of over 12,500 essays and reviews.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an excellent\u00a0 review (&#038; more) of Ed Dorn\u2019s Collected Poems by Iain Sinclair in the current issue of the London Review of Book. Below the opening paragraph. 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