Gunslinger is a six-part 1968 poem by Ed Dorn.
Gunslinger[4] is Dorn's best-known work, and widely considered his most important.
The gunslinger is a long form political poem about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes.
[6] Dorn mixes the jargon of drug addicts, Westerners, and others to reflect the jumble of American speech.
He seems to intentionally frustrate the reader; syntax is ambiguous, punctuation is sparse, and puns, homonyms, and nonsense words become an integral part of conversation.