See Jack

Russell Edson

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Author
Russell Edson
Publish Date
2009-03-20
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
University of Pittsburgh Press
Subject
Poetry
Number of Pages
80
ISBN-10
0822960303
ISBN-13
9780822960300
SKU
9780822960300

Description

“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