Reading by Ed Dorn

Mar 29, 1976
Field:

Reading, Performance

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

8:30 p.m.

Description:

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:

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.