Very Bad Poetry
Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' The Stuttering Lover to Matthew Green's The Spleen to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy, they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.Guaranteed to move ev…
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Weitere Autoren: Petras, Ross
- ISBN: 978-0-679-77622-2
- EAN: 9780679776222
- Produktnummer: 9549614
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
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Kathryn and Ross Petras are a brother and sister team who wrote The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said. They live in New York City.
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