"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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 03/20/2009
ISBN: 9780822960300
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.54h x 5.46w x 0.24d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/20/2009 pg. 34