Lanford Wilson

Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems

David Crespy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2017
University of Missouri Press (Verlag)
978-0-8262-2133-9 (ISBN)

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Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s, small-town Missouri where he grew up. This selection of Wilson's early work, written between 1955 and 1967 provides a rare look at a young writer developing his style.

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley’s Folly, and Burn This, he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s, small-town Missouri where he grew up. This selection of Wilson’s early work, written between 1955 and 1967 when he was between the ages of 18 and 30, provides a rare look at a young writer developing his style. The stories explore many of the themes Wilson later took up in the theater, such as sexual identity and the rupture of societies and families. These never-before-published works—part of the manuscript collection donated by Wilson to the University of Missouri—shed light on the roots of some of America’s best-loved plays and are accomplished and evocative works in their own right.

David Crespy is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, and Dramatic Literature at the University of Missouri. He is the author of many plays and two previous books, founder and co-director of the Writing for Performance Program, and founding artistic director of the Missouri Playwrights Workshop and the Mizzou New Play Series. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.

Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction by David Crespy
SECTION 1: Six Stories
A Section of Orange
Goodbye Sparta
Miss Misty
The Beautiful Children
The Polar Bear
The Canary (A Fairy Tale)
SECTION 2: Travels to and from the City
The Train to Washington
The Water Commissioner
Fish Kite
SECTION 3: Sketches of Town Life
The Rimers of Eldritch
Green Grow the Rushes
Chalk Eye
Drift
SECTION 4: Sketches of City Life
Mama
Fuzz on Orion’s Sword
Uptown in Snow
Dear Mr. Goldberg
Doors
SECTION 5: Poems
Outside Tulsa
Mountains
Orange Grove
Flower Box
Marigold
Oakwood Gothic
[Well, there she is, after all]
Cathedral of St. Paul
The Street Artist
Village Walking Rhyme
On a Day of Crisis
Fifth Avenue was quiet
Winter
So the Sky
Lullaby
Lullaby (2)
If Yours Cannot Be
I Saw All the Workers in the Field at Noon
Why When I Love You
Notes on a Poem for Bill
Noel
The great-hearted Dean
A Love Story about the Next Best Thing
Afterword by Marshall W. Mason
Editorial Note

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	7 illustrations
Verlagsort	Missouri
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	538 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10	0-8262-2133-5 / 0826221335
ISBN-13	978-0-8262-2133-9 / 9780826221339
Zustand	Neuware