Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson (Paperback)

A baby that keeps losing its brain, a cow in a wedding gown, a woman whose chest is a radio - bizarre and whimsical figures populate this collection of dreamlike prose poems from Russell Edson (1935-2014), with a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic. A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Edson's whole career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of startling imagination and strangeness. Craig Morgan Teicher calls us to witness Edson's obsessions with the curious, the absurd, and the peculiar, and the ways in which they can haunt our daily lives. The prose poems in this collection mold our everyday into something extraordinary and unsettling. Edson's poems are surreal fables in which his characters experience all that life throws at them- marriage, parenthood, technological advances, aging, dying, the afterlife- through irreverent dialogue and vivid imagery in turns both humorous and grotesque. Russell Edson is a vital and ever-contemporary poet with a unique moral and comedic vision, whose literary career quietly yet definitively shaped the prose poetry subgenre as we know it now.

General

Imprint:	B O a Editions, Limited
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Poets Continuum
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Rusell Edson
Editors:	Craig Morgan Teicher
Foreword by:	Charles Simic
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
ISBN-13:	978-1-950774-73-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	1-950774-73-2
Barcode:	9781950774739

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