Russell Edson

He began publishing poetry in the 1950s. His honors as a poet include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Edson self-published several chapbooks and later, numerous collections of prose poetry, fables, two novels, Gulping's Recital and The Song of Percival Peacock, and a book of plays under the title, The Falling Sickness. His final book was See Jack (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). He lived in Darien, Connecticut with his wife Frances.

• Name — Russell Edson • Birth Name — Russell Edelstein • Born — 12 December 1928 • Birthplace — Manhattan, New York, US • Died — 29 April 2014 • Parents — Gus Edson • Period — 19512009 • Awards — * Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (1977, 1981, 1992) • Whiting Award (1989) • Occupation — Poet, Novelist, Illustrator

• Wuck Wuck Wuck! (with linocut by Richard Mock, Red Ozier Press, 1984)

• Gulping's Recital (Guignol Books, 1984) • The Song of Percival Peacock: A Novel (Coffee House Press, 1992)

• Tick Tock: Short Stories (illustrated with woodcuts, Demitasse/Coffee House Press, 1992) • What a Man Can See: Fables (with drawings by Ray Johnson, 1969) • The Brain Kitchen: Writings and Woodcuts (Thing Press, 1965) • The Very Thing That Happens: Fables and Drawings (New Directions Publishing, 1964) • Appearances: Fables and Drawings (Thing Press, 1961) • A Stone Is Nobody's: Fables and Drawings (Thing Press, 1961)

• The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays (New Directions Publishing, 1975)

• Ketchup opera in 2 acts. Text By Russell Edson, music by Franklin Stover. Scored for 2 voices & chamber orchestra. • The Song of Percival Peacock - an entertainment for reed quintet and narrator set to prose poems of Russell Edson, by Franklin Stover. (Edition Hohenstaufen, 2017)

• See Jack (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) • The Rooster's Wife: Poems (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2005) • The Tormented Mirror (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) • The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson (Oberlin College Press, 1994) • The Wounded Breakfast (Wesleyan University Press, 1985) • With Sincerest Regrets (Burning Deck Press, 1980) • The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad (Wesleyan University Press, 1977) • Edson's Mentality (OINK! Press, 1977) • The Intuitive Journey and Other Works (Harper & Row, 1976) • The Clam Theater (Wesleyan University Press, 1973) • The Childhood Of An Equestrian (Harper & Row, 1973) • Ceremonies in Bachelor Space (Grapnel Press, Black Mountain College, 1951)