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Little Mr. prose poem : selected poems of Russell Edson / Russell Edson ; edited by Craig Morgan Teicher ; foreword by Charles Simic.

PS3509.D583 L58 2022

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Edson, Russell, author.
Contributor:: Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979- editor.; Simic, Charles, 1938-2023, writer of foreword.
Series:: American poets continuum series ; no. 196
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Poetry.
Genre:: Prose poems.
Physical Description:: 176 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition:: First edition.
Place of Publication:: Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2022.
Summary:: "A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:: Machine generated contents note: From The Very Thing That Happens (1964); Clouds; When the Ceiling Cries; The Cruel Rabbit; The Wheel; The Very Thing That Happens; Dialogue for Father and Son; Going Upstairs; Waiting for the Signal Man; The Fetcher of Wood; A Condition; For a Time; A Stone is Nobody's; When Something is Broken; From What A Man Can See (1969); Dream Man; What a Man Can See; A Man Had a House; Father and Son Traveling; The Road; The Fall; The Singing Daughter; Something to Tell People; From The Childhood of an Equestrian (1973); Antimatter; Ape; The Complaint; Composing a Love Song; The Dainty One; Dismissed Without a Kiss; The Distressed Moth; An Extrapolation; A Letter from an Insomniac; Piano Lessons; The Retirement of the Elephant; The Toy-Maker; From The Clam Theater (1973); The Agent; The Ancestral Mousetrap; The Avalanche; The Case; The Clam Theater; Colic; The Cradle; Elephants; The Family Monkey; The Floor; The Mental Desert; My Uncle in the Distance; The Nostril Affair; Oh My God, I'll Never Get Home; The Pleasure of Old Age; From The Intuitive Journey (1976); How Things are Turning Out; Counting Sheep; The Abyss; The Feet of the Fat Man; Time of the King; A Roof with Some Clouds Behind It; Mr. & Mrs. Duck Dinner; The Hemorrhoid Epidemic; The Marionettes of Distant Masters; Grass; The Captain's Surprise; From The Reason Why the Closet Man Is Never Sad (1977); The Adventures of a Turtle; The Cliff; The Coincidental Association; The Cottage in the Wood; The Double Bed; The Large Thing; An Historical Breakfast; The Liver Gag; Monkey-Overstreet's Lovely Surprise; The Pregnant Ones; From The Wounded Breakfast (1985); Our Poor Brains; How Things Will Be; The Way Things Are; My Head; A Zoography; The Paddlers' Song; The Park Bench; Slaughter Time in the Hills; The Gift; Edson's Mentality; The Inconvenienced Farmer; With Sincerest Regrets; From The Tormented Mirror (2001); Sweet Tooth; The Key; The Laws; The Position; Baby Pianos; Pork Chop; A Redundancy Of Horses; The Passion; Under Great Light Flooded Clouds; Angels; An Observer Of Incidentality; From The Rooster's Wife (2005); Fairytale; The Mare's Egg; Evenings; The Dog's Tail; The Proud Citizen; The Way; Baby Doll; To Do No Harm; At Sea; New Prose About an Old Poem; Let Us Consider; The Occasion; Portrait of a Wrinkly Old Man with Nasty Genitals; Of Memory and Distance; From See Jack (2009); Accidents; The Applicant; The Conversation; The Eternal Worm; The Gross Situation; The Hunger; A Lovely Cloud Poem to a Dear Friend; The Man with a Sudden Desire to Bark at the Moon; Of the Night; Portrait of a Realist.
Other Format:: Online version: Edson, Russell. Little Mr. prose poem.
ISBN:: 9781950774739; 1950774732
OCLC:: 1302577653

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