Gunslinger Ed Dorn   Inasmuch as symmetry has long been an important element of the lyric, when I think of poetic turns I think, too, of “re-turns”; for every strophic movement there is a corresponding antistrophic one, just as every volta promises the possibility of a “re-volta,” a small rebellion (if you’ll forgive the cuteness) against the presumed singularity of the volta as well as narrative and intellectual presumptions of progress and linearity. If we take the volta to be a turn of thought effectuated by a turn in language, we must also note that any thought or speech-act—even performative ones—can as easily be undone. Just so, the turns of lyric poems, however dramatic, may be erased through the same linguistic operations that birthed…