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Very Bad Poetry

By Kathryn Petras

Very Bad Poetry Humour & Satire

Very Bad Poetry

By Kathryn Petras

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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 even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
146
Release Date:
1997-03-25
Publication Date:
1997-03-25
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679776222
ISBN13:
9780679776222
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
129 g
Height:
114 cm
Width:
191 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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