The Tormented Mirror
Published on 22. February 2001
97 pages
978-0-8229-7981-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In The Tormented Mirror, Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new poems.
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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
- The Haunted House
- The Secret Graveyard
- A Letter From Home
- Characters
- An Old Woman's Children
- Genital Secrets
- Monkey Achievement
- That . . .
- Sweet Tooth
- The Babies
- The Flowerpot
- The Glandular Condition
- The Key
- The Laws
- The New Father
- The Position
- The Sleeper's Dark
- The Tormented Mirror
- Where Charity Begins
- 2
- The Antiques Shop
- Accidents
- Baby Pianos
- Balls
- Madam's Heart
- Meanwhile . . .
- Pork Chops
- Sleep
- The Academic Sigh
- A Redundancy of Horses
- The Alfresco Moment
- The Bloodworthy Correspondence
- The Breast
- The Clock
- The Horse of Fashion
- Sunset
- Urinating
- On the Writing of a Prose Poem
- 3
- Poetry
- Bread
- Feathers
- Medical Stew
- Nocturne
- One Who Bathes in Moonlight
- Symmetry
- The Fruit Bowl
- The Joy Attendant on the Little Journey
- The Message
- The Passion
- The Rabbit Story
- Night Song
- The Square Wheel
- The Stuff of Dreams
- The Traveling Circus
- The Veterinarian
- Under Great Light Flooded Clouds
- 4
- The Grinding
- Allegory
- Angels
- An Observer of Incidentality
- Sanity
- Round
- Chickens
- Nice
- The Encounter
- The Bath
- The Night Invaded
- The Method
- The Reality Argument
- The Theory
- The Twilight of the Gods
- Thus Spake Polly
- The Rule and Its Exception
- Wings
