A Pageant of Its Time : Edward Dorn's Slinger and the Sixties (Studies in Modern Poetry)

Finds the narrative poem Slinger , written between 1967 and 1974, to be a chronicle of the rise and fall of the revolutionary counterculture and a commentary on its noble aspirations and base pretensions. Argues that it is best read as an intelligent and humorous reaction to the varying moods of its complex times. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.