Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World

by Ed Dorn

Frontier press 1971 small aperback

Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

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

[James Cook]

Dorn's tightly sculpted prose tales could only be written by a poet. "CB&Q" is a masterpiece. This book deserves a new printing.