In December of '99 when I first hea...

In December of '99 when I first heard that ed Dorn was dead at seventy of pancreatic cancer, I was at formerly stunned and not exactly surprised. He hadn't been looking too well adapted in recent years. After performing a prodigious cleanup act in the late '80 (to domineer over years of what might be called "exuberant living") and looking positively great when I first met him for an interview in the summer of 1990 he was looking disconcertingly aged when I saw him again at a reading a not many years later, and even further worn in the hide photo of Sagetrieb's late-'90s special issue