- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press; 1st Edition edition (Mar 28 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0822960303
- ISBN-13: 978-0822960300
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13.9 x 0.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,155,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“The profundity of Edson’s genius has perhaps never been as fully appreciated as it should, in spite of his fervent following. But Edson is one of the few poets one would trust to survive an encounter with death itself and find ever new terrain for poetry. ‘See Jack’ is as much the capstone of a singular career as it is a point of departure for Edson’s ongoing practice of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
--Kenyon Review
--Kenyon Review
“Edson continues to build his legend by writing sad, serious, strange, and funny prose poems. No one writes like Edson, though many prose poets wish they could and have imitated him for decades. This new volume perpetuates the myth, presenting fresh and insightful paragraphs on everything from internal worms to an old man’s soup to a man barking at the moon.”
—Bloomsbury Review
—Bloomsbury Review
“Edson is one of the most significant practitioners of the prose poem in contemporary American letters.”
—Rain Taxi
—Rain Taxi
“Edson’s prose poems are like fables. Each opens a window onto a world that is absurd and ruthless, funny and perverse. . . . an enjoyable new book.”
—Pleiades
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Edson began publishing poetry in the 1960s. He has been called “the godfather of prose poems in America” by Booklist’s Ray Olson.
Edson has been quoted as saying “Prose comes so naturally that one doesn’t really have to choose it, it’s already in one’s mouth”.
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