Ceremonies in Bachelor Space
Russell Edson
May 1, 2020
ISBN 9780578671086 / Paperback / 76 pages / $9.99

The first new edition of the debut collection by Russell Edson, the "godfather of the prose poem in America." Originally published in 1951 by Black Mountain College, Ceremonies in Bachelor Space gathers 31 surreal poems and short prose pieces written when Edson was just twenty-one—early works that already signal the singular style he would later perfect in his prose poetry and fiction.

"[O]ne of those originals who appear out of the lonesomeness of a vast, thronged country to create a peculiar and defined world ... a world seen as through the wrong end of a spyglass, miniscule but singularly clear."
— Denise Levertov

"A surrealist and a realist, a magical realist and a fabulist, a narrative storyteller and a Postmodern poet. In other words, he defies easy classification."
— Mark Tursi