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Author | : Kathryn Petras |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1997-03-25 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0679776222 |
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).
Author | : Barbara Hamby |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0820330876 |
Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.
Author | : Chris Harris |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316266590 |
The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be." Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, Harris's hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight-of-hand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully upside-down way. With enthusiastic endorsements from bestselling luminaries such as Lemony Snicket, Judith Viorst, Andrea Beaty, and many others, this entirely unique collection offers a surprise around every corner. Adding to the fun: Lane Smith, bestselling creator of beloved hits like It's a Book and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has spectacularly illustrated this extraordinary collection with nearly one hundred pieces of appropriately absurd art. It's a mischievous match made in heaven! "Ridiculous, nonsensical, peculiar, outrageous, possibly deranged--and utterly, totally, absolutely delicious. Read it! Immediately!" --Judith Viorst, bestselling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Author | : William Cole |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
A collection of humorous poems, some by well-known and others by obscure poets.
Author | : Bo Burnham |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 145551912X |
A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and dedicated following. Bo taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday, making him the youngest to do so in the channel's history. Now Bo is a rising star in the comedy world, revered for his utterly original and intelligent voice. And, he can SIIIIIIIIING! In Egghead, Bo brings his brand of brainy, emotional comedy to the page in the form of off-kilter poems, thoughts, and more. Teaming up with his longtime friend, artist, and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo takes on everything from death to farts in this weird book that will make you think, laugh and think, "why did I just laugh?"
Author | : James Parton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2023-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3375174527 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Author | : James Parton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Parton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : American poetry |
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Author | : Amy Buswell |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1476742944 |
Many struggling readers are embarrassed to read aloud. They are often intimidated or bored by texts that reading specialists require them to practice. So, instead of catching up, they are falling further behind. This handbook filled with poetry reading lessons can help turn struggling readers into happy readers.
Author | : James Parton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 1106 |
Release | : 2023-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368355724 |
Reproduction of the original.