Russell Edson

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Russell Edson (born 1935 in Connecticut) is an American poet. Edson won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974, and has published eleven books of prose poems, one novel, The Song of Percival Peacock, and The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays. He still lives in Connecticut with his wife Frances.[1] [2]

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  • Ceremonies in Bachelor Space (1951)
  • A Stone Is Nobody's: Fables and Drawings (1961)
  • Appearances: Fables and Drawings (1961)
  • The Very Thing That Happens (1964)
  • What a Man Can See: Fables, with drawings by Ray Johnson (1969)
  • The Childhood Of An Equestrian (1973)
  • The Clam Theater (1973)
  • The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays (1975)
  • The Intuitive Journey and Other Works (1976)
  • Edson's Mentality (1977)
  • The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad (1977)
  • Gulping's Recital (1983)
  • The Wounded Breakfast(1985)
  • The Song of Percival Peacock: A Novel (1992)
  • The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson (1994)
  • The Tormented Mirror (2001)
  • The Rooster's Wife: Poems (2005)

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