Gulping Recital

Excerpts from Russell Edsons first novel Gulpings Recital appeared in The Moderns: An Anthology of New World Writing edited by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones at the time) and published by Corinth Books in 1963. That was a year prior to the New Directions publication of Edsons breakthrough collection of prose poems The Very Thing That Happens. In the Notes on the Authors section at the back of The Moderns it stated Jonathan Williams Jargon Press is scheduled to bring out the complete Gulpings Recital. For reasons unknown the Jargon Press edition never materialized and it wasnt until 1984 that Gulpings Recital was finally published by the small press Guignol Books in Rhinebeck NY. This first-ever reissue of Gulpings Recital is published with permission from the Estate of Russell Edson.