Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Literature & Fiction

Frank, Edwin

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Poetry. Photography. Like Dr. Faustus, like Don Giovanni, like Alice, Pinocchio is one of the mythic avatars of the modern mind, a scapegrace forever escaping retribution by the skin of his teeth. This unusual collaboration between poet Edwin Frank and photographer George Woodman finds Pinocchio caught in a series of unexpected, and yet familiar, entanglements, at once comic and miserable. The tricky relations between lover and beloved, theory and practice, fantasy and reality are among the matters that might be said to come up in this beautiful sequence of words and images, which offers both an exploration of photography's narrative unconscious and a prosody of the perverse. "George Woodman's provocative photographs lie at the intersection of nature and culture. These densely layered images recall the mythological, and refer to the art historical, but above all, exist in the personal present." --Adam Weinberg, Whitney Museum of American Art

The Further Adventures of Pinocchio

Woodman, George

Poetry

ALEF Books

<p>Poetry. Kabbalist hymns, a Futurist dragon, Wagnerian vaudeville, Virgil in India, and Pinocchio, in love and at a loss, among the philosophers, are among the mirrors and reflections found in SNAKE TRAIN, a gathering of the poetic sequences and longer poems (plus one piece of prose) that Edwin Frank has published over the years in various journals and chapbooks. Though haunted by ghosts, this book of waiting and wanting is very much set among the shiny constructions and destroyed or abandoned spaces of today's continuous present, in which the lyric echoes from some past—or future—remove.</p>

Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013

Shearsman Books

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