num_pages: 90
description: "Edson's brief, tightly-packed, highly-charged paragraphs are the crystallized essence of what could be long stories, and they are prose poems, and they are ontological probings into the nature of things: objects, animals, people."
language: English
title: The Very Thing that Happens: Fables and Drawings
titlecomplete: The Very Thing that Happens: Fables and Drawings (A New Directions Paperbook)
genres: Poetry, Short Stories
ratings_count: 40
publisher: New Directions