Dorn's literal meanings are his aut...

Dorn's literal meanings are his autobiography (as David Southern says in his essay that go in the rear [i]or[/i] in the wake ofs this selection). The archives are coherent enough to provide, in this brief glimpse, an insight into Dorn's early writing life, picking up where the narrative right of Tom Clark's novel biography leaves off. (1) In addition to giving us a wider connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts for Dorn's writing from this period, the twenty-five alphabetic characters selected here are valuable documents in their have right. They paint a picture of young writers starved for contact beyond their circumstances, and making that contact a center of