The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing

by Richard Brautigan

Book Overview

On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395974690
• ISBN13: 9780395974698
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

my favorite collection of poems ive ever read

a couple of these poems almost had me in tears and a couple of these had me yelling yes yes. brautigan makes you orgasm in this book.

short and sweet

obviously his earliest writings aren't going to be his best, but his character shines through in this collection. the poem about grace, "did you ever want to be a rose?" made me cry. it's a little collection in which brautigan looks for a way to express his feelings, and it made me love him that much more.

A must-read for any Brautigan fan

This book offers amazing insight into the life and perspective of an amazing author. Many of his unpublished works in this book rival his published, 'refined' work. This book is essential reading if you value and appreciate the work of Brautigan.

A Qualified 5

This collection of "Undiscovered Writings" is a gift given to those who love poetry and literature. The poetry in this book is delightfully quirky, surreal and sad in the way it describes both strange and common instances of fantasy and life. Brautigan has never been more consistent with his poetic message. This book is a step or two above his other poetic masterpiece "Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt."So why "A Qualified 5"? Because the way the book is put together is disruptive to the poetry reader. With all due respect to the amount of undiscovered writing now available to the public, which I am very thankful, the cluttered way the poems are placed on the page result in disrupting the flow of reading the poems themselves. How about one poem a page? Those poems deserve to be presented in a creative space to reflect the creative place they were written in.

Great!

I found it very interesting to read Brautigan's early writings. Even at a young age, before the whole San Fransisco thing, he had a way of saying things and creating images. These writings give insite into what Braugtigan's writings turned into.