Very Bad Poetry
Author: Petras, Kathryn
ISBN: 9780679776222
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 25 Mar 1997
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Writing very bad poetry requires talent.P#160;P#160;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius.P#160;P#160;From Fred Emerson BrooksP#39; Pquot;The Stuttering LoverPquot; to Matthew GreenP#39;s Pquot;The SpleenPquot; to Georgia Bailey ParringtonP#39;s misguided Pquot;An Elegy to a Dissected PuppyPquot;, they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Plt;bPgt;Very Bad PoetryPlt;/bPgt; is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
ISBN: 9780679776222
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 25 Mar 1997
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Writing very bad poetry requires talent.P#160;P#160;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius.P#160;P#160;From Fred Emerson BrooksP#39; Pquot;The Stuttering LoverPquot; to Matthew GreenP#39;s Pquot;The SpleenPquot; to Georgia Bailey ParringtonP#39;s misguided Pquot;An Elegy to a Dissected PuppyPquot;, they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Plt;bPgt;Very Bad PoetryPlt;/bPgt; is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
