Experts Are Puzzled
By Laura Riding
1930
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A nearly impossible text to categorize—is it a collection of short stories, prose poems, manifestos or something else entirely?—Experts Are Puzzled is one of Laura Riding’s earliest and most intense examinations of poetry’s and language’s relationship to truth. In essayistic examinations such as the titular piece, “Introduction to a Book on Money,” and “An Address to America,” Riding seeks to articulate a higher, more poetic notion of truth and truth telling. As such, Experts Are Puzzled stands as an essential text for understanding why Riding came to reject poetry in the late 1930s. While excerpts and selections from Experts have been published before, most notably in Riding’s Progress of Stories, the entirety of the collection has not appeared in print since its initial publication by Jonathan Cape in 1930.
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Author
Laura Riding
Author · 11 books
Laura (Riding) Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. 1923-1926 as Laura Riding Gottschalk 1927-1939 as Laura Riding 1963-1991 as Laura (Riding) Jackson She also published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara.
