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Notability
editI've removed the notability tag which was added last month. Here are a couple of extensive articles from the Poetry Foundation website with significant coverage of the topic:
- Colin Dickey, True West.
- André Naffis-Sahely, The Borderless Empire of the Interior.
Furthermore, the poem has been the subject of a reasonable amount of academic scholarship, including at least one entire monograph:
- James K. Elmborg, A Pageant of Its Time: Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties (1998).
- Davidson, Michael. "To Eliminate the Draw: Edward Dorn's Slinger." American Literature 53, no. 3 (1981): 443–64. https://doi.org/10.2307/2926230.
- Barron, Patrick. "Edward Dorn's Heretical Spatial Knowledge in 'The North Atlantic Turbine' and 'Gunslinger'." The Midwest Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, summer 2008, pp. 401+.
- Guimarães, João Paulo. “Laughing for Survival: Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Language in Ed Dorn’s ‘Gunslinger.’” Western American Literature 50, no. 4 (2016): 347–74. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24779979.
- Savage, Jordan. “‘What the Hell Is a Flowery Boundary Tree?’ Gunslinger, All the Pretty Horses and the Postmodern Western.” Journal of American Studies 46, no. 4 (2012): 997–1008. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875812000023.
- Dewey, Anne. "The Relation between Open Form and Collective Voice: The Social Origin of Processual Form in John Ashbery's Three Poems and Ed Dorn's Gunslinger." Sagetrieb 11, no. 12 (1992): 58.
- Ladkin, Sam. "'as they wander estranged': Edward Dorn's Gunslinger." Edinburgh Review 114 (2005): 59-95.
- Foster, Thomas. "'Kick[ing] the Perpendiculars Outa Right Anglos': Edward Dorn's Multiculturalism." Contemporary Literature 38, no. 1 (1997): 78–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/1208853.
- Hemmer, Kurt. "The Janus-Face of American Rugged Individualism: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger, the Beat Generation, and Simulacra." In Matt Theado (ed.), The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry (Liverpool, 2021; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online, 19 May 2022), https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979930.003.0008, accessed 5 Mar. 2024.