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

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. Juh and Geronimo (0:41): MP3
9. Nanay (0:46): MP3
10. Creation (2:53): MP3

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)
12. Untitled (July 24th 1984) (0:39)
13. For the Protection of This Whole World and its Contents (0:24)
14. In Humble Admiration (1:02)
15. Revenge as an Insufficient Inducement (0:31)
16. Paralyzing Affability: an Analysis of the Reagan Voice (0:28)
17. A Critique of Recent Developments in Mezo-America (0:18)
18. The Tyranny of Food (0:35)
19. On Rejuvenating the Hotline (0:48)
20. Of Decadent Californian Tories (0:59)
21. Wait Till the Christians Hear About This (1:05)
22. Self-Criticism (2:30)