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Donald Hall said of Edson’s poetry, “It’s fanciful, it’s even funny—but his humor carries discomfort with it, like all serious humor.” And Peter Schejeldahl pointed out that his poems have “the sustained wackiness of old Warner Brothers cartoons.”

He also wrote a book of plays, The Falling Sickness (1975), and the novels Gulping's Recital (1984) and The Song of Percival Peacock (1992). He lived for many years in Stamford and Darien, Connecticut.

And Peter Schejeldahl pointed out that his poems have “the sustained wackiness of old Warner Brothers cartoons.” In an interview with Mark Tursi, Edson once said of his writing process, “My job as a writer is mainly to edit the creative rush.