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Ed Dorn

reading at the A Space Gallery, Toronto, February 2, 1973

  • part 1 (24:42): MP3
  • part 2 (33:15): MP3
  • (Recording provided by Robert Creeley. Please note: tape cuts off at the end of part 2.)

reading at SUNY Buffalo, April 19, 1974

  1. Introduction (0:41): MP3
  2. The Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down (from Gunslinger, book IV) (4:11): MP3
  3. Dorn discusses Recollections of Gran Apacheria (1:51): MP3
  4. First Lines (3:05): MP3
  5. Victorio (0:58): MP3
  6. Nana and Victorio (0:56): MP3
  7. Dress for War (0:45): MP3
  8. Bounty Time (0:43): MP3
  9. The Provoking Figure of the Horse Woman (1:00): MP3
  10. Geronimo (0:33): MP3
  11. Juh and Geronimo (0:40): MP3
  12. General Miles Imagined (0:11): MP3
  13. Nanay (0:53): MP3
  14. (When Geronimo Was in Washington for the Inauguration) (1:12): MP3
  15. Fifteen-Hundred Tons of Hay at a Penny a Pound (0:22): MP3
  16. The Moving, Invisible Spectre of the Phraytry on the Traitor Peaches (1:20): MP3
  17. (And When, Above Janos) (0:39): MP3
  18. A Period Portrait of Sympathy (0:39): MP3
  19. (When the Boundary Commission) (0:34): MP3
  20. Assorted Compliments (0:50): MP3
  21. Reservations (3:31): MP3
  22. Creation (2:40): MP3
  23. The Whole European Distinction (0:52): MP3
  24. Personum (0:50): MP3
  25. (The Original Monuments of Perception) (0:11): MP3
  26. (Out of the Sunset Movement) (0:08): MP3
  27. (So the Infant is Bound) (1:16): MP3
  28. The Slipping of the Wheel (0:25): MP3
  29. Immured in Florida (0:16): MP3
  30. La Maquina a Houston (3:59): MP3
  31. complete reading (38:43): MP3

reading and discussion of Gunslinger at the University at Buffalo, April 20, 1974

  • complete reading (59:47): MP3

Ed Dorn reads the complete Gunslinger for an S Press recording, 1975

  • "Gunslinger" part 1 (56:13): MP3
  • "Gunslinger" part 2 (45:23): MP3
  • Recording History:
  • Gunslinger. Part 1, books I & II, the cycle
  • Publisher: Dusseldorf, S Press Tonbandverlag, 1975
  • Description: 1 cassette (ca. 60 min.) 2-track, mono
  • Series: S Press tape; Nr. 43-44
  • Recorded by Michael Kohler in Munich, on February 20, 1975

reading with Amiri Baraka at the Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo, NY, December 8, 1978

  1. Letter from Simon Shocket (7:57): MP3
  2. First Lines (2:58): MP3
  3. Victorio (1:09): MP3
  4. Nana and Victoro (0:47): MP3
  5. Dress for War (0:46): MP3
  6. The Provoking Figure of the Horse Woman (1:05): MP3
  7. Geronimo (0:33): MP3
  8. Geronimo (0:33): MP3
  9. Nanay (0:46): MP3
  10. Creation (2:53): MP3
  11. complete reading (38:43): MP3

(recording courtesy of Robert Creeley)

reading at the Woodland Pattern Bookstore, Milwaukee, November 17, 1984

Courtesy of Cento Magazine and Brian Rosenblum

from Captain Jack's Chaps

  1. Introduction (on Milwaukee) (0:57)
  2. Essential Introductory Matter (6:02)
  3. Houston: Deplaning and Getting Learnt (1:56)
  4. A Piece of Advice (0:52)
  5. At the Cowboy Panel (2:06)
  6. God Create's Man (0:38)
  7. Sunday Morning in the Murdered Territories (1:00)
  8. Maximum Ostentation (3:45)
  9. More Ostentation (1:54)
  10. Triumph of the Hominids (0:46)
  11. Hotel Hartley (3:10)

from Abhorrences

  1. Introduction / Here I Go Again (4:51)
  2. There's Only One Natural Death and Even That's Bedcide (2:59)
  3. Hard Boudoir (0:51)
  4. Kansas City Collapse (0:32)
  5. Where's the Pork (0:38)
  6. It Could be Anyone (0:22)
  7. Tuesday was a Fait Accompli, not a Raison d'Etre (0:53)
  8. Flatland (0:24)
  9. Smoke & Cinders: Some Thoughts on the Truckers (0:56)
  10. World View Solipsized (0:27)
    11. Not So Hard Wired but Something to Do (0:29)
  11. Untitled (July 24th 1984) (0:39)
  12. For the Protection of This Whole World and its Contents (0:24)
  13. In Humble Admiration (1:02)
  14. Revenge as an Insufficient Inducement (0:31)
  15. Paralyzing Affability: an Analysis of the Reagan Voice (0:28)
  16. A Critique of Recent Developments in Mezo-America (0:18)
  17. The Tyranny of Food (0:35)
  18. On Rejuvenating the Hotline (0:48)
  19. Of Decadent Californian Tories (0:59)
  20. Wait Till the Christians Hear About This (1:05)
  21. Self-Criticism (2:30)

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