Russell Edson (born 1935 in Connecticut) is an American poet, the son of the cartoonist and screenwriter, Gus Edson.

Edson won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974, and has published eleven books of prose poems, one novel, The Song of Percival Peacock, and The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays. He still lives in Connecticut with his wife Frances. ^{[1] [2]}

Contents:
1. Bibliography
2. References
3. External links

1. Bibliography

• Ceremonies in Bachelor Space (1951)
• A Stone Is Nobody's: Fables and Drawings (1961)
• Appearances: Fables and Drawings (1961)
• The Very Thing That Happens (1964)
• What a Man Can See: Fables, with drawings by Ray Johnson (1969)
• The Childhood Of An Equestrian (1973)
• The Clam Theater (1973)
• The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays (1975)
• The Intuitive Journey and Other Works (1976)
• Edson's Mentality (1977)
• The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad (1977)
• Gulping's Recital (1983)
• The Wounded Breakfast(1985)
• The Song of Percival Peacock: A Novel (1992)
• The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson (1994)
• The Tormented Mirror (2001)
• The Rooster's Wife: Poems (2005)
• See Jack (2009)

2. References

1. Russell Edson, Poet
2. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/LitCheck/edson

3. External links

• The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor: Poems by Russell Edson
• Poetry Foundation > Russell Edson
• The Believer> March 2004 > Why The Reader of Good Prose Poems Is Never Sad: An Appreciation of Russell Edson > By Sarah Manguso