I discovered in Donald Barthelme in The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) edited by Alison Lurie. His tale was The Glass Mountain (1976). And it was the strangest fairy tale I've ever read. Nothing like it. It defies any categorization. And he's dryly funny. Just look up Donald Barthelme. Oh. And read The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales. I'm not going to tell you about that either. Just check them out from the library. You might be surprised that a writer like Donald Barthelme exists. I feel lucky that he does. His writing will inspire my nonsense poetry.
Denis Streeter 11/23/16
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