Russell Edson (1935 - Present)

Russell Edson is an American poet, born in Connecticut in 1935, and is often considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America, having written exclusively in that form before it became fashionable.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

Page Views	Poem	Comments
9942	Ape	6 Comments
7879	The Family Monkey	4 Comments
6476	The Floor	1 Comment
6087	A Stone Is Nobody's	29 Comments
5977	The Fight	1 Comment
5483	The Sad Message
5198	A Historical Breakfast
5193	The Fall	2 Comments
4644	Counting Sheep	1 Comment
3881	Antimatter	2 Comments
3789	The Gentlemen In The Meadow
3595	The Toy-Maker
3563	Hands	2 Comments
3357	Accidents	8 Comments
3275	The Pilot
3145	Sleep	5 Comments
3019	The Bridge
2987	The Breast	3 Comments
2962	Paying The Captain	1 Comment
2948	Ape And Coffee	1 Comment
2758	A Journey Through The Moonlight
2750	You
2749	The Rat's Tight Schedule
2745	Grass
2729	The Marionettes Of Distant Masters
2683	The Philosophers
2633	Vomit	10 Comments
2620	Angels
2619	The Man Rock
2615	The Road
2600	The Tree
2595	The Having To Love Something Else	4 Comments
2592	The Reason Why The Closet-Man Is Never Sad
2586	The Melting
2562	The Wounded Breakfast	2 Comments
2555	The Pattern	1 Comment
2469	The Autopsy
2462	Elephant Dormitory
2460	On The Eating Of Mice
2445	One Lonely Afternoon
2355	The Death Of A Fly	4 Comments
2301	The Position
2279	Mr. Brain	3 Comments
2277	The Changeling
2267	Erasing Amyloo
2229	The Father Of Toads
2124	Soup Song
2095	The Lighted Window
2008	Conjugal
2007	A Performance At Hog Theater
1958	The Closet
1803	The Ox
1658	The Alfresco Moment
1611	The Theory	2 Comments