Dorothy Nyren
In the following essay, Dorothy Nyren explores Russell Edson's The Childhood of an Equestrian as a collection that navigates between depth and light, alternating between strangeness and horror, while occasionally veering into silliness, effectively evoking both shudders and smiles through its imagery and sudden insights.
"What is right in the depths hardly obtains in the sunshine," Edson muses in [The Childhood of an Equestrian,] his volume of poems that hover between the depths and sunshine, shifting from strangeness to horror and back again, with only an occasional slip into silliness…. A poetry of images and sudden aperçus, good for a shudder or a smile…. (p. 3992)
Dorothy Nyren, in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, December 15, 1972; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1973 by Xerox Corporation), December 15, 1972.
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