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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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“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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A playful, complex novel of banter between servant and master. Edson is the author of The Reason the Closet-Man Is Never Sad.
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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 Thing That 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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Herr och fru Anka Middag knackar på dörren och ber att få bli tillagade. Fru Anka visar sig dock vara en äldre dam. Musslor skriver dagbok om sin ensamhet. En toalettstol spolar av ren sorg när den inte blir älskad av dem som sitter i vardagsrummet. Mannen som sitter på taknocken ropar hoppla så att huset reser sig på sina grundstenar och varenda tegelsten far i backen. Den samtida poesin kan uppvisa många sidor men frågan är om någon skriver så annorlunda som Russell Edson. Hans fantasi går helt enkelt över alla tänkbara gränser. Om spädbarn - eller hönor - kunde skriva, har Robert Bly sagt (som beröm, alltså) skulle de antagligen skriva som Russell Edson. Russell Edson har sedan början av sextiotalet publicerat märkliga sagor, filosofiskt tankeväckande vrångbilder av den så kallade tillvaron och halsbrytande förvrängningar av det vi trodde vara verkligheten. Hans prosadikter ger ofta upphov till en tankeväckande tystnad i läsaren, som om den värld vi har så klara åsikter om kanske i själva verket är en annan... De etthundrafemtio prosadikterna i denna bok är hämtade från Russell Edsons hela produktion från 1961 till 2005. Urvalet har gjorts av Stewe Claeson i samråd med Edson själv. "Jag vet inte vem man skall kalla Amerikas främsta diktare idag men bland de bästa vågar jag påstå att Russell Edson är den originellaste, mest förvånande, egendomligaste och mest oefterhärmeliga." DONALD HALL