The Intuitive Journey and Other Works

Literature & Fiction

Edson, Russell

Poetry

Harper&Row

Russell Edson (1935 - April 29, 2014) was an American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator, and the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson. He studied art early in life and attended the Art Students League as a teenager. He began publishing poetry in the 1960s. His honors as a poet include a Guggenheim fellowship,[1] a Whiting Award, and several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.[2]

Intuitive Journey and Other Works

Harpercollins

Excerpts from Russell Edson's first novel, Gulping's Recital, appeared in The Moderns: An Anthology of New World Writing, edited by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones at the time) and published by Corinth Books in 1963. That was a year prior to the New Directions publication of Edson's breakthrough collection of prose poems, The Very Thing That Happens. In the "Notes on the Authors" section at the back of The Moderns, it stated "Jonathan Williams' Jargon Press is scheduled to bring out the complete Gulping's Recital." For reasons unknown, the Jargon Press edition never materialized and it wasn't until 1984 that Gulping's Recital was finally published, by the small press Guignol Books in Rhinebeck, NY. This first-ever reissue of Gulping's Recital is published with permission from the Estate of Russell Edson.

Gulping's Recital

Humor & Satire

Tough Poets Press

Russell Edson's debut collection of stories and poems, Ceremonies in Bachelor Space, was first published in November 1951 by the now defunct Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Ceremonies in Bachelor Space contains 31 odd, surreal poems and short stories by the then 21-year-old Edson that portend the style he would master in his critically-acclaimed prose poetry and novels later in his career. This new edition has been completely reformatted while preserving as much of the original edition's innovative layout and typography as possible.

Ceremonies in Bachelor Space

United States

The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays

New Directions

The Clam Theater (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

Dramas & Plays

Wesleyan University Press

The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

History & Criticism

The clam theater (The Wesleyan poetry program, v. 64)

The reason why the closet-man is never sad (Wesleyan poetry program ; v. 84)

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