The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings Paperback – September 16, 1999

Reading in 2013 is likely to make the social antagonism in which such far-fetched ideas as media and government hardly make sense seem like the fatted calf in a pathetic senile tragedy struggling to escape a world as it TIS: Tarnished Identity Society (TIS) is splitting into sponges and jellyfish parasites like NGO TIS and governmental police force TIS and private army TIS. William Blake thought John Milton was of the devil's party without knowing it, but what Richard Brautigan knew, growing up in the land of the new rising sun, was:Personally, I can't stand the Bible. It's too dry. (p. 75).The story that starts on page 73 of The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (1995, 1999) by the late, great Richard Brautigan has a Penny that didn't show up and Mr. Perlich before seeing a big, fat rattlesnake sunning himself on the front porch of Winston's tumble-down old cider mill. We can try to escape our own pathetic fatted calf senile tragedy by picturing a God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as I am TIS appearing to an old man whose wife laughs, the ram with its horns stuck in a thicket like Kierkegaard trying to describe what his father went through, and then the identity theft that made Jacob the replacement for his twin brother Esau before Leah became the old wife who replaced the younger Rachel when Jacob preferred a young woman to the oldest available accursed share.Richard Brautigan has ideas that range far more cosmically than the common American Jesus persiflage that attempts to replace religion for people who would rather live like Adam and Eve or Steve. The pressure he was feeling after seeing the chopped off heads of white chickens is like the lack of leadership in an endless string of baby Babylons who live under a Hey Joe in the White House.

This is a young Brautigan, I like his early poetry I can see the beginning of an author/poet that I learned to love his work.

Brautigan is an author sadly lost too early in his life. I own everything I can get my hands on by him, and loan them out often. His writing style is so complicated it's simple. Makes you think.....but without really thinking. Can't explain him. Read him.

A collection of otherwise unknown poetry by Richard Brautigan, a world-renowned poet and author in the 60s and 70s who unfortunately, committed suicide, thus depriving us of the rest of his unwritten works.

These previously unpublished works will give readers an insight into Richard Brautigan's earliest voice as a writer. Combined with the early chapters from Jublee Hithchiker that describe his painful childhood, the reader has an opportunity to better understand the man, his life and ultimately his suicide.

I really think this is some of Brautigan's best poetry next to Springhill Mining Disaster. It is young and innocent, but extremely funny. This book shows how Richard's writing will advance in the years to come. I'm very glad I bought it.

Nice to see the beginnings of a great writer. A pleasure to read. A creative genius.

Essential EARLY Brautigan...a 'must have' for any appreciator of Brautigan's unique outlook on life.

my husband loves brautigan and this is one of two he hadnt read, he has thoroughly enjoyed it thankyou jm

Excellent Book. Arrived on time and as expected.

First time I have read Richard Braitigan. Really enjoyed it. Loved the short poems which are succinct . An unusual book

best author ever