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This collection of thirty years' worth of occasional poems and prose features Edward Dorn's short fiction, stories populated with the working poor and the dispossessed: drifters, searchers, fugitives, Native Americans, and itinerant trailer-park families. It also includes the book-length poem, Recollections of Gran Apachería, a polemical, spiritual meditation on Geronimo, the Apaches, and their annihilation at the hands of European descendants. A third of the book consists of inflammatory essays, Gonzo travelogues, and idiosyncratic cultural analyses, and these, especially, find Dorn in fine form: witty, perverse, cantankerous, shocking.

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Dorn is probably the late twentieth century's finest chronicler of what he calls 'contemporary horse culture.' His subject is always the real West: not the West Coast, not Seattle, San Francisco, and L.A., but 'real towns' such as Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Laramie, Wyoming, and Ryegate, Montana. ('Real towns, ' Dorn says, 'don't have parking meters.') We're talking the Big Open. The Big Empty. --Booklist From its scathing satires of trendy academics, 'mighty, blood-splattered Republicans, ' and a new West 'shining its noble light on Real Estate' to its account of D.H. Lawrence's Taos and its unsentimental eulogy of Richard Brautigan, Way West is a ghastly, funny tour de force, a rodeo of cultural clowns, moral imperatives, and all manner of riff-raff. Way out. --Booklist

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