Russell Edson

This prized collection of Russell Edson’s prose poems, featuring his own favorites from seven prior collections, constitutes some of the most original American art of this century. This is the book of choice for both new and committed fans of this imaginative poet.

Selected Poems

The Tunnel

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.

The Tormented Mirror

Relates the antics and arguments of Mr. Peacock and his unruly servants as Mr. Peacock tries in vain to locate his missing "throne"

A Novel

The Song of Percival Peacock

A Book of Plays

The Falling Sickness

New prose poems by an American master, surrealist comic genius, magician of metaphor and imagination.

Poems

The Rooster's Wife

Fables and Drawings

The Very Thing that Happens

The Reason why the Closet-man is Never Sad

The Childhood of an Equestrian

“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

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