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The rooster's wife : poems

Title
The rooster's wife : poems / by Russell Edson.
Author
Edson, Russell.
Publication
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2005.

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Description
91 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
American poets continuum series, no. 90
Uniform Title
American poets continuum series ; v. 90.
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Contents
Fairytale -- History -- The wonders of nature -- The mare's egg -- Evenings -- The dog's tail -- The elegant simplification -- The tree -- The proud citizen -- Super monkey -- The bloody rug -- The courtship -- The guardsman's horse -- The bleeding -- The running of the mascara -- Things -- The cat -- The hollow pig -- The great abstraction, or the unfinished story of everything -- The way -- The Jack story -- Baby doll -- The womb -- To do no harm -- Vignette -- At sea -- The civilized man -- The wet diaper -- Breakfast toast -- The grandpa knee -- The knitting -- Of those who bring forth upon the earth -- New prose about an old poem -- Geography -- Of a midsummer's night -- The sweetheart -- Lunch -- The shrieking -- Of baskets and eggs -- The fascination -- Bath water and spilled milk -- The box -- The wound -- Baby -- Let us consider -- The organ of thought -- Night watch -- The dark waters -- The truffle garden -- The moonlit wall -- The gas heads -- Skeleton -- Rocks -- What it is of the wood -- The occasion -- The restaurant -- Thighs -- Dessert -- Looking for the head -- An old woman who tastes like an old woman -- Portrait of a wrinkly old man with nasty genitals -- Little Edward -- Flies -- One lonely afternoon -- The farmer who lowed -- Of memory and distance -- Monkey gas -- The rooster's wife.
ISBN
  • 1929918623 (alk. paper)
  • 1929918631 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004024831
OCLC
  • ocm56809452
  • SCSB-5183294
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries