Description

I talk with my colleague J. Robert Lennon (Subdivision, Let Me Think, Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games) about Russell Edson's hilarious, strange poem "The Neighborhood Dog." Highlights include a recording of Edson reading the poem; laughter; the relationship between strange poetry and strange fiction; mystery and narrative expectations. Afterward, we play a game that I forgot to name.

Also mentioned:

• Edson's poem "With Sincerest Regrets," which I talked about in episode 16;
• Edson's poem "Ape"
• The Adult Swim video "Too Many Cooks"
• Theodore Roethke's "I Knew a Woman"
• Marcel Proust and William Shakespeare
• Epoch literary magazine