Ed Dorn read three pieces in the Grand Luxe Hall as part of Western Front’s weekly Monday Night Reading Series. Dorn opened the reading with an Aztec speech translated from Nahuatl in collaboration with scholar Gordon Brotherston, followed by the first and last parts of Gunslinger Book III (1975).
The reading was presented as part of the series Four American Poets, organized by Warren Tallman.
Captions:
Reading by Ed Dorn, video documentation, part 1, Mar 29, 1976. 47 min. 49 sec.
Reading by Ed Dorn, video documentation, part 2, Mar 29, 1976. 28 min. 40 sec.
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