See Jack
Published on 5. April 2009
80 pages
978-0-8229-7825-1 (ISBN)
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
-Peter Johnson
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Russell Edson was a playwright, novelist, and poet. He authored eighteen previous poetry collections, including The Tormented Mirror, The Reason Why the Closet-Man is Never Sad, The Wounded Breakfast: Ten Poems, and The Tunnel: Selected Poems.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1
- Accidents
- The Addiction
- After the Concert
- The Applicant
- But Not a Couch, Dear Child
- Captain Cow
- The Conversation
- The Country Life
- Dear Self
- The Dear Son
- The Death of Goldilocks
- Dogs
- The Dummies
- Eggs
- The Endless Night
- The Eternal Worm
- The Fallen Maestro
- The Family Trust
- The Great Fall
- 2
- The Gross Situation
- How the Bull Lost His Mind
- The Hunger
- The Indefinite Article
- The Leaking
- The Life of Man
- Love
- A Lovely Cloud Poem to a Dear Friend
- The Man with a Sudden Desire to Bark at the Moon
- A Man Who Went for a Walk
- The Man Who Would Think of the Universe
- Margaret's Book
- The Marination
- Mashed Potatoes
- The Moonlighters
- The Movie Star
- Myopia
- Nature
- 3
- Of the Night
- An Old Man Putting an Old Man to Bed
- An Old Man's Soup
- One Man's Story
- The Plagiarists
- Portrait of a Headache
- Portrait of a Realist
- The Prisms of Grief
- The Royal Jewels
- The Royal Sitting Organ
- See Jack
- The Sensual Past
- A Song of Likelihoods
- Space Journey
- The Theory of Jack's Death
- To Stop, To Go No More
- The Tradition
- The Transfigurations
- Waiting for the Fat Lady to Sing
- Acknowledgments
