Ed Dorn s achievement has been to create single-handedly a language of public reference, and to have brought within the sphere of expressive language and poetic experience objects and feelings which had been, literally, unimaginable in those terms. It is in this context that he is one of the masters of our contemporary language.
Peter Ackroyd

Ed was one of the most thoughtful but penetrating thinkers. There was no PollyAnna in him at all. And that s what I liked about him.
Amiri Baraka

Along with Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, William Carlos...