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The Rooster's Wife (Paperback)
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The Rooster's Wife (Paperback)
Series: American Poets Continuum, 90.00
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Loot Price R336
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For the past 40 years, Russell Edson has been producing a body of
work unique in its perspective and singular in its approach. He is,
arguably, America's most distinguished writer of prose poems. Here
are contorted Darwinian narratives of apes and monkeys exhibiting
absurdly human behavior, along with his usual menagerie of
elephants, horses, chickens, roosters, dogs, mermaids and mice.
Along with his trademark humor, The Rooster's Wife finds Edson
contemplating age, mortality and immortality as well. Of Memory and
Distance It's a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance
will grow smaller as he proceeds. Eventually becoming so small he
might only be found with a microscope, if indeed he is found at
all. But there is a vanishing point, where anyone having entered
the distance must disappear entirely without hope of his ever
returning, leaving only the memory of his ever having been. But
then there is fiction, so that one can never really be sure if one
is remembering someone who vanished into the distance, or simply
who had been made of paper and ink . . . Russell Edson has been
called a surrealist comic genius, a magician of metaphor and
imagination. He is all of these, and a philosophical poet whose
zany expeditions into the twisted labyrinths of logic resemble
Lewis Carroll's adventures through the wonderlands of paradox and
illusion. Perhaps that is why even people who do not read
significant amounts of contemporary poetry can immediately
appreciate the playful accessibility of Russell Edson's writing.
What he pulls out of the hat of the subconscious is always
unpredictable, immediate and surprising. Russell Edson's books
include The Very ThingThat Happens (1964); The Childhood of an
Equestrian (1973); The Tunnel: Selected Poems (1994); and The House
of Sara Loo (Rain Taxi Chapbook Series, 2002). He lives in Darien,
Connecticut.
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