- Taschenbuch: 91 Seiten
- Verlag: Boa ed (April 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1929918631
- ISBN-13: 978-1929918638
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23 x 17,6 x 0,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.051.046 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Other American poets of Edson's now almost elderly generation have written and still write prose poems, but Edson has written precious little else. Perhaps his persistence accounts for him being the only American prose poet most readers can recall. Or perhaps his memorability stems from his reliability as a surrealist. Surrealism seems the literary manner best suited for prose poetry; others more readily make fables and mere story ideas, rather than poems, out of short prose pieces. Edson is a perpetual font of the incongruous scenarios, wordplay, and repetitive narrative and conversational forms typical of dreams, and dreams, after all, are the model surrealist texts. Like dreams, Edson's prose poems are directly and indirectly concerned with feelings customarily suppressed during wakefulness, whose content is violent, scatological, and, especially, sexual. An Edson prose poem, however amusing and ridiculous--however jokelike--it may be, is disturbing. The line between acceptable and forbidden appetites is definitely skirted. Laughter never blunts the edges of Edson's elegantly maculate conceptions. Ray Olson
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New prose poems by an American master, surrealist comic genius, magician of metaphor and imagination.
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A Neglected American Master's Dazzling New Book!
15. April 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
If I could nominate a writer for the title of "Best Kept Secret in American Literature," my nominee would have to be Russell Edson. For more than forty years the reculsive prose poet has traveled on the margins of mainstream literature, establishing himself among a select group of readers as a master craftsman. His short phantasmagoric parables are at once sublime AND ridiculous, consistently entertaining, and boldly introspective. Edson uses the ordinary elements of daily life situations to launch us into a dimension of absurdist unreality that informs the reader as dreams inform the wakened dreamer.
In this, his newest book, Edson proves no less powerful, no less cunning, no less brilliant. There are new relationships between familiar objects, new objects born of familiar relationships, and acres of fresh imaginative terrain to discover. But, be warned, you who enjoy the bald "meaningfulness" so popular in American pablum-poetics (thanks, Billy Collins), THE ROOSTER'S WIFE requires all your intelligence, your full attention, and your sense of humor. So, push aside your presumptions of poetic form and meaning, and wander the impossible landscape of America's Most Neglected Master. Read Russell Edson's THE ROOSTER'S WIFE.
In this, his newest book, Edson proves no less powerful, no less cunning, no less brilliant. There are new relationships between familiar objects, new objects born of familiar relationships, and acres of fresh imaginative terrain to discover. But, be warned, you who enjoy the bald "meaningfulness" so popular in American pablum-poetics (thanks, Billy Collins), THE ROOSTER'S WIFE requires all your intelligence, your full attention, and your sense of humor. So, push aside your presumptions of poetic form and meaning, and wander the impossible landscape of America's Most Neglected Master. Read Russell Edson's THE ROOSTER'S WIFE.
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A decent book, but not his best.
3. Dezember 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
I have long been a fan of Russell Edson for his unique and thoroughly abstract prosetry, but this book is not his top work. Although the poems do hold true to his usual surreal writing style, many of the pieces seem forced, almost as though they were included to stretch the length of the book. Russell Edson is a wonderful poet and truly underappreciated artist, but this book is not up to snuff. If you are interested in getting to know some of his work, I would start with one of his other books (like "The Tormented Mirror") before you pick up "The Rooster's Wife".
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9. Juli 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
An excellent book, but not for those who don't like surrealism or abstractness. I loved it. Wise, and inimitable.
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