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In December of '99, when I first heard that Ed Dorn was dead at seventy of pancreatic cancer, I was at once stunned and not exactly surprised. He hadn't been looking too good in recent years. After performing a prodigious cleanup act in the late '80s (to overcome years of what might be called "exuberant living") and looking positively great when I first met him for an interview in the summer of 1990, he was looking disconcertingly aged when I saw him again at a reading a few years later, and even further worn in the cover photo of Sagetrieb's late-'90s special issue devoted to his work. I'm told pancreatic cancer is a quickly spelled sentence, and I also understand that ...