- Paperback
- Publisher: Oberlin College Press (Jan 1 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0932440657
- ISBN-13: 978-0932440655
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 20.5 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #607,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Russell Edson's prose poems constitute some of the most original American art of the 20th century. Like the boxes of Joseph Cornell, each is a miniature world, eerie in its logic, unsettling in its ruthless fun, dazzling in its invention. Much of Edson's corpus has been out of print or difficult to find for some time now. This new selection offers his own favorites from seven previous collections, restoring Edson to his large and international audience and introducing him to new readers who are committed to what is truly original and illuminating in language, imagination, and poetry.
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A husband and wife climbed to the roof of their house, and each at the extremes of the ridge stood facing the other the while that the clouds took to form and reform. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Great selection of odd, dark prose poems, July 13 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tunnel: Russell Edson (Paperback)
Edson is one of the most prominent poets working in the field of prose poetry; this collection contains some of his best work from many different books. The poems are short and often have a dark and absurdist feel to them, as in "The Damaged Ape" wherein a family discovers that the ape they recently bought has defects when a little piece of its nostril falls off. This is probably my favorite poetry book, I highly recommend it. There are some good web pages about Edson where you can read some of his work; he is IMHO one of the best-kept secrets in modern poetry.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fun, and sometimes profound, Feb 3 2001
By Matthew Cheney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tunnel: Russell Edson (Paperback)
Don't let yourself get all tangled in the arguments over what is and isn't a prose poem, or even if such an oxymoronic creature is possible. It doesn't matter what you call them, these things by Russell Edson are great fun and great reading.Most of these pieces are about a page long, and many are considerably shorter. They are moments of dreams, newsreels from some surreal purgatory, portraits of impossibility. In this world, "Mr Is went into the woods to think about his wooden head," and "A woman had given birth to an old man." Within the oddity and amidst the strangeness are moments of tenderness, passion, horror. Read slowly and carefully, these words somehow seem to reflect the world we trudge through and the life we lead, and so add contours to our boring reality. There is a lot of melancholy here; it comes perhaps from the confusions and juxtapositions, but there is nothing to fear, and plenty to love, for, as Edson writes, "In such a world there is much sadness which, of course, is joy..."
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Broadly accessible prose poems, rewarding, and unique., July 15 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tunnel: Russell Edson (Paperback)
I read this book with a poetry reading book club and it was one of the club's favorites. Edson writes often surreal philosophical fables which are easy to enter into because of their familiar, "There once was a woman who..." language. However, this river runs deep.
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