In the summer of 1965 Edward Dorn a...

In the summer of 1965 Edward Dorn attended the Berkeley poesy Conference, substituting for LeRoi Jone He spoke to the audience of his travel with photographer Leroy Lucas end what is known geographically as the Basin-Plateau, an area occupied on several of the western United States, including Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and Utah. Beginning in souse Valley, on the Nevada-Idaho border and continuing west as far as Reno, one as well as the other men documented their experiences upon long and often gravelly roads that l from boom-and-gloom towns of western pacification to more desolate and isolate