Synopsis
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 yetproof that his imaginative powers keep growing. What a deliciously scary thought!”
Peter Johnson
About Russell Edson
See more books from this AuthorIn his 19th collection of prose poems, Edson's imagination remains as bizarre as ever, although he breaks no new ground.
Apr 20 2009 | Read Full Review of See Jack (Pitt Poetry Series)The proximity of sleep and death haunt “An Old Man Putting an Old Man to Bed,” in which an old man administers to himself forms of care richly desired and utterly impossible: “He could do everything for the old man except kiss him on his forehead as children are done before they sleep.” We die, a...
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