See Jack (Pitt Poetry Series)

By Russell Edson

"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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822960303
• ISBN13: 9780822960300
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 7.5"