Lanford Wilson Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems / [edited by] David Crespy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011, author.

Contributor:

Crespy, David Allison, editor.

Mason, Marshall W., writer of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilson, Lanford.

Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2017.

Summary:

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, and Burn This, he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s, small-town Missouri where he grew up. This selection of Wilson's early work, written between 1955 and 1967 when he was between the ages of 18 and 30, provides a rare look at a young writer developing his style. The stories explore many of the themes Wilson later took up in the theater, such as sexual identity and the rupture of societies and families. These never-before-published works-part of the manuscript collection donated by Wilson to the University of Missouri-shed light on the roots of some of America's best-loved plays and are accomplished and evocative works in their own right.

Contents:

section 1. Six stories. Section of orange ; Goodbye Sparta ; Miss Misty ; Beautiful children ; Polar bear ; Canary (a fairy tale)

section 2. Travels to and from the city. Train to Washington ; Water commissioner ; Fish kite

section 3. Sketches of town life. Rimers of Eldritch ; Green grow the rushes ; Chalk eye ; Drift

section 4. Sketches of city life. Mama ; Fuzz on Orion's sword ; Uptown in snow ; Dear Mr. Goldberg ; Doors

section 5. Poems. Outside Tulsa ; Mountains ; Orange grove ; Flower box ; Marigold ; Oakwood gotchic ; (Well, there she is, after all) ; Cathedral of St. Paul ; Street artist ; Village walking rhyme ; On a day of crisis ; (Fifth Avenue was quiet) ; Winter ; So the sky ; Lullaby ; Lullaby (2) ; (If yours cannot be) ; I saw all the workers in the field at noon ; Why when I love you ; Notes on a poem for Bill ; Noel ; (Great-hearted dean) ; Love story about the next best thing.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8262-7389-0

OCLC:

999606927