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sloatsj's review against another edition
5.0
A truly essential book of poetry. Like a punch in the gut, and then again, hilarious.
george_salis's review against another edition
4.0
Much of Edson's imagery is ripe for fantastic fiction (in both meanings of the phrase), which is why I enjoyed his novel, Gulping's Recital, more (and I will surely read Edson's other novel too). His work is a(n) (anti-)world of the (in)sane, the (sur)real, the (non) sequitur, the (reptilian) (b)rain.
Here is but a brief taste:
"Once I changed a man into a child by removing certain bones. The result was less than life, yet, more than death; it was art . . ."
This would make a great opening to a novel: "On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love."
"When science is in the country a cow meows and the moon jumps from limb to limb through the trees like a silver ape."
"It was someone as viewed in a mirror, or was it you said it was someone viewing its someone who it is in a mirror where perhaps someone lives only."
"He that puts suicide into his left ear pretends it is wax. His mother says, but it's a bullet which you have shot yourself with."
Here is but a brief taste:
"Once I changed a man into a child by removing certain bones. The result was less than life, yet, more than death; it was art . . ."
This would make a great opening to a novel: "On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love."
"When science is in the country a cow meows and the moon jumps from limb to limb through the trees like a silver ape."
"It was someone as viewed in a mirror, or was it you said it was someone viewing its someone who it is in a mirror where perhaps someone lives only."
"He that puts suicide into his left ear pretends it is wax. His mother says, but it's a bullet which you have shot yourself with."
melanierichards's review against another edition
2.0
Not into the absurd domestic violence, but some other great prose-poems. Best phrase: "first slime of love."
oceannakolb's review against another edition
1.0
I see that the vast majority of reviewers loved this collection, but it was completely not my thing. It was like a cross between reading a dream journal and a 3am tumblr shitpost. Just not enough substance in the surreality.
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