Joe Safdie

Politics and time

The continued relevance of Edward Dorn's 'Gunslinger'

Photo of Edward Dorn (right) courtesy of Joe Safdie.

Marjorie Perloff, in her short foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger (Duke University Press, 2018), finds herself surprised that she had mentioned Donald Trump in her previous introduction to the second edition, in 1989, when she had had no real consciousness of him at the time.

Marjorie Perloff, in her short foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger (Duke University Press, 2018), finds herself surprised that she had mentioned Donald Trump in her previous introduction to the second edition, in 1989, when she had had no real consciousness of him at the time.

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