Dorn worked with Brotherston on translations from Latin American texts and is acknowledged on the title page.

Interview conductors include Tom Clark, Penny Parker, Robert Bertholf, Joel Oppenheimer, Holbrook Teter, Theodore Weiss, and Tandy Sturgeon; folder includes a Denver Post article which quotes Dorn extensively.

John Wright conducted the interview.

Matthew Cooperman, who conducted the interview, is a poet, critic, and editor.

Paul Dresman conducted the interview.

Including 4 typewritten pages with corrections, entitled "Way West / TO THE COW CAPITAL: Floating through the Miles City Bucking / Horse Sale."

Including Ed Dorn's introductions to various works ("Yellow Lola," "The Shoshoneans," and "On the Road at the End of which the Sun is Rusting") and his correspondences with publishers.

Including Ed Dorn's four typewritten essays, with corrections ("105 Seconds of UV: an essay of the Tropi-Tan experience," "H2O," "Fear and Clothing in Boulder, Colorado," and "Dogs and Diet") and a photocopy of his published essay "Acid Rain in the Mountains: Troutfishing in nitric acid may be just around the corner" published in Boulder Monthly (August 1979).

Including 3 handwritten sheets entitled "Notes on Beziers: the past as cauchemar," with author's inscription: "SEE / Little Fat / notebook" on the left margin.

Including drafts for "Jerusalem" and "The Moses Mosaics."

Author's inscription on 1r: "draft 10 oct / 1994 / For / the apex / of the M."

Including a final copy published in Observe Magazine (issue: 7 January 1990), entitled "Mornings in Mexico: The old adobe village of Taos was an inspiration to D.H. Lawrence."

Including a programme of the opera "The Gondoliers" by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Mildland Bank Operatic and Dramatic Society); one sheet includes a bibliographical information on John Henry "Doc" Holliday.

Author's inscription on 1r: "DICT RECORD / MID AUGUST--MID SEPT SEPT. 1997."