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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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See Jack (Paperback)
Russell Edson
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R415
R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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"An artist who moonlights as a dentist. A worm who's eternal. A
farmer who milks his cow to death. Not to mention the guy with a
belly button for an eye. Russell Edson, self-named Little Mr. Prose
Poem, returns with See Jack, a book of fractured fairy tales, whose
impeccable logic undermines logic itself, a book that champions
what he has called elsewhere 'the dark uncomfortable metaphor.'
'What better way to die,' he writes in the final prose poem, 'than
waiting for the fat lady to sing in the make-believe of theater,
where nothing's real, not the fat lady, not even death . . . ' See
Jack may be Edson's best book yet-proof that his imaginative powers
keep growing. What a deliciously scary thought!" -Peter Johnson
This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular
and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry
in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has
created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy
to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In "The Tormented Mirror,"
Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new
poems.
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