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Edward Dahlberg

Born

in Boston, The United States

July 22, 1900

Died

February 27, 1977

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His first novel, Bottom Dogs, based on his childhood experiences at the orphanage and his travels in the American West, was published in London with an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. With his advance money, Dahlberg returned to New York City and resided in Greenwich Village. He visited Germany in 1933 and in reaction briefly joined the Communist Party, but left the Party by 1936. From the 1940s onwards, Dahlberg made his living as an author and also taught at various colleges and universities. In 1948, he taught briefly at the experimental Black Mountain College. He was replaced on the staff by his friend and fellow author, Charles Olson.

He was an expatriate writer of the 1920s, a proletarian novelist of the 1930s, a spokesman for a fundam ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 368 ratings · 58 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Because I Was Flesh 4.08 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1963 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can These Bones Live by Edward Dahlberg, James Kearns (Illustrator), Herbert Read (Preface) 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1941 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorrows of Priapus: Consisting of The Sorrows of Priapus and The Carnal Myth 4.13 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of Edward Dahlberg ( Universal Library, Volume 12 ) 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bottom dogs, From Flushing to Calvary, Those who perish, and hitherto unpublished and uncollected works 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1930 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flea of Sodom 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Leafless American and Other Writings (Recovered Classics Series) by Edward Dahlberg, Gerald Burns (Designer), Harold Billings (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bottom Dogs by Edward Dahlberg, D.H. Lawrence (introduction) 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1930 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alms for Oblivion 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edward Dahlberg Reader really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.”
― Edward Dahlberg

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“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.”
― Edward Dahlberg

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“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.”
― Edward Dahlberg

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The Island of Second Sight

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Island People

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Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript

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Impossible Object

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History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays

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What Waiting Really Means (American Literature

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A Structural Analysis of Pound's Usura Canto: Jakobson's Method Extended and Applied to Free Verse

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Rising UP and Rising DOWN by Bill

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impossible object (write-in)

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Raymond Federman -- the clear winner!

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Five Legs

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Europe After the Rain

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Bad Guy

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Remembrance Rock

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Ysengrimus

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Der blaue Kammerherr. Galanter Roman in vier Bänden.

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ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?

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Take Five

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Edward Dahlberg's Complete Works

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