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Allison, Tony, Thank you both. I zipped over to the Duke University Press web site and found: Gunslinger Edward Dorn 223 pages ( 1989) ISBN 0-8223-0964-5 Cloth - $49.95 ISBN 0-8223-0932-7 Paperback - $18.95 "Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, has become a minor classic." "Dorn cleverly mixes the jargon of junkies, Westerners, structuralists, and scientists to reflect the jumble of American speech. He intentionally frustrates the reader: syntax is ambiguous, punctuation is sparse, and puns, homonyms, and nonsense words become an integral part of conversation. Donald Wesling has declared that such frustration is 'one of the pleasures of the poem when you finally discover the mechanism.'"-Contemporary Authors I'd searched Barnes and Noble.com after I wrote Doug today and could only find first editions of books I & II at much more than the price of Duke's "whole dang thing". Thanks again, Frank *************** Frank Parker [log in to unmask] http://now.at/frankshome ZIG-ZAG JOURNEYS zig-zag journeys in the sunny South belly up to the salsa bar Frank Parker/David Gitin 2.19.01