What a Man Can See: Russell Edson Fables, Ray Johnson Drawings

Title

en_US What a Man Can See: Russell Edson Fables, Ray Johnson Drawings

en_US Jargon 37

Description

en_US Russell Edson Fables

Creator

en_US Edson, Russell See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Drawings, Ray Johnson

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:18Z

en_US 1998-02

en_US 1969

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1969

Abstract

en_US The key to my understanding of this book is that it is in the same Jargon series in which one finds Kenneth Patchen's Fables and Other Little Tales (1953). I understand the works in both books about equally--that is, very little. These works are all in prose, and most of them are one page in length. A few of them of which I start to get a sense are Something to Tell People, A Man with a Tree on his Head, Mrs Pinch & a Bad Mister Man, The Fall, Mr and Mrs Mildred Pump, and If I Remember. There seems to be a good deal of interrelation in the works: items and phrases from earlier works recur in later ones. The modality of this work seems to be dream and dreamlike association. I do not get a sense of the relation of the visual art to the literature here. I am also unsure in what sense fable applies to this collection.

Identifier

en_US 4004 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79344

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Jargon Society

en_US Penland, NC

Subject

en_US PS3509.D583 W5 1969 See all items with this value

en_US Russell Edson Fables See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole