Chemo Sábe (2001) by Edward Dorn

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The paper edition is letterpressed and sewn by hand in an edition of 650 copies.

The cloth edition is from a special edition of 50 copies bound into cloth and boards, signed by Jennifer Dorn and Ray Obermayr.

Edition:

The paper edition is letterpressed and sewn by hand in an edition of 650 copies.

The cloth edition is from a special edition of 50 copies bound into cloth and boards, signed by Jennifer Dorn and Ray Obermayr.

This is Edward Dorn's last collection of poems, written while battling cancer and the drugs he took to fight the disease.

In a poem remembering Ed, his old friend Amiri Baraka described him: "Thin straight blonde Cowboy / Movie looking white guy with the mind / Of a saw." He didn't see Ed after his weekly chemo sessions or the day he weighed less than 130 pounds. But what Amiri said about him in the same poem: "I dug Ed Dorn because he would rather / Make you his enemy / Than Lie," stayed true until the end.  

— Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, from the Introduction.