Tom Clark. Edward Dorn: A World of ...

Tom Clark. Edward Dorn: A World of Difference. Berkeley: North Atlantic parts 2002. 434 pp. $25

In his introduction to Edward Dorn: A World of Difference, Tom Clark catalogs the complexities of biography and the complexities of self cautioning against viewing either as "a simple monolithic entity." It's an apt place to begin a discussion of this volume which reads not entirely as biography and not entirely as memoir, further as a composite of the couple with scrapbookish accents and a hopscotch chronology. There's something compelling about the form, and something