Abhorrences

by Ed Dorn

A collection of poetry by Edward Dorn.

Genres: Poetry

174 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Edward Merton Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his first eight grades. He later studied at the University of Illinois and at Black Mountain College (1950-55). At Black Mountain he came into contact with Charles Olson, who greatly influenced his literary worldview and his sense of himself as poet.[citation needed]

Dorn's final examiner at Black Mountain was Robert Creeley, with whom, along with the poet Robert Duncan, Dorn became included as one of a trio of younger poets later associated with Black Mountain and with Charles Olson.

Reviews

[Maeve Howser · Rating 2 out of 5]

T'was a DNF for me.
Halfway through my reading of it I described it to my girlfriend, to which it said "old man yells at cloud." My reading of it then became "centrist grandpa yells at minor inconvenience."
Dorn's poetry feels like a Facebook post by your very conservative grandpa with random line breaks to make the whole thing a more stout rectangle.
On the Maeve G. Howser Pages Until Old Man Author Makes Transphobic Joke Test™️, it scored 96.