B Is for Bad Poetry
Forget Shakespeare. Don’t count on Donne. Shelley and Keats: banished! And there’s absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest of us—bad poetry! Pamela...
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Forget Shakespeare. Don’t count on Donne. Shelley and Keats: banished! And there’s absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest of us—bad poetry! Pamela Russell’s unexalted (but thoroughly hysterical) poems mock, chide, accuse, tease, joke, undermine, point, and laugh at the world around us—and at anything that takes itself too seriously. Her non-canonical oeuvre includes: Tea For Two (A Tragedy); Nietzsche And The Ice-Cream Truck; Capitalism Can Fall Not Like I Fell For You; Inappropriately Touched By An Angel; Love Is Like A Toilet Bowl; and many more. Who knew bad poetry could be so good!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781402767876 (1402767870)
Publish date: October 6th 2009
Publisher: Sterling
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
First, I have to say she's very brave to choose this title. I picked this up in a gift store in Port Townsend expecting it to be a collection of hilariously bad old poems, a la Bulwer-Lytton, but it's actually her own poems and snappy little bombs of sarcasm and wit they are. My husband and I laughe...