Rusell EdsonRussell Edson (1935-2014) was the author of many books of prose poems, including The Very Thing That Happens, The Reason Why the Closet Man Is Never Sad, The Rooster’s Wife (2005), and See Jack.  He is also the author of a collecion of plays, The Falling Sickness, and the novels Gulping’s Recital and The Song of Percival Peacock. He lived in Darien, Connecticut. Read More Read Less