The Rooster's Wife

by Edson, Russell

• ISBN13: 9781929918638
• ISBN10: 1929918631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Boa Editions

Summary

New prose poems by an American master, surrealist comic genius, magician of metaphor and imagination.

Table of Contents

1
Fairytale	13	(1)
History	14	(1)
The Wonders of Nature	15	(1)
The Mare's Egg	16	(1)
Evenings	17	(1)
The Dog's Tail	18	(1)
The Elegant Simplification	19	(1)
The Tree	20	(1)
The Proud Citizen	21	(1)
Super Monkey	22	(1)
The Bloody Rug	23	(1)
The Courtship	24	(1)
The Guardsman's Horse	25	(1)
The Bleeding	26	(1)
The Running of the Mascara	27	(1)
Things	28	(1)
The Cat	29	(1)
The Hollow Pig	30	(1)
The Great Abstraction, or the Unfinished Story of Everything	31	(1)
The Way	32	(1)
The Jack Story	33	(1)
Baby Doll	34	(1)
The Womb	35	(4)
2
To Do No Harm	39	(1)
Vignette	40	(1)
At Sea	41	(1)
The Civilized Man	42	(1)
The Wet Diaper	43	(1)
Breakfast Toast	44	(1)
The Grandpa Knee	45	(1)
The Knitting	46	(1)
Of Those Who Bring Forth Upon the Earth	47	(1)
New Prose About an Old Poem	48	(1)
Geography	49	(1)
Of a Midsummer's Night	50	(1)
The Sweetheart	51	(1)
Lunch	52	(1)
The Shrieking	53	(1)
Of Baskets and Eggs	54	(1)
The Fascination	55	(1)
Bath Water and Spilled Milk	56	(1)
The Box	57	(1)
The Wound	58	(1)
Baby	59	(4)
3
Let Us Consider	63	(1)
The Organ of Thought	64	(1)
Night Watch	65	(1)
The Dark Waters	66	(1)
The Truffle Garden	67	(1)
The Moonlit Wall	68	(1)
The Gas Heads	69	(1)
Skeleton	70	(1)
Rocks	71	(1)
What It Is of the Wood	72	(1)
The Occasion	73	(1)
The Restaurant	74	(1)
Thighs	75	(1)
Dessert	76	(1)
Looking for the Head	77	(1)
An Old Woman Who Tastes Like an Old Woman	78	(1)
Portrait of a Wrinkly Old Man with Nasty Genitals	79	(1)
Little Edward	80	(1)
Flies	81	(1)
One Lonely Afternoon	82	(1)
The Farmer Who Lowed	83	(1)
Of Memory and Distance	84	(1)
Monkey Gas	85	(1)
The Rooster's Wife	86	(1)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	87	(1)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	88	(4)
COLOPHON	92