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Very Bad Poetry Paperback - 1997
by Ross Petras/ Kathryn Petras
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Writing very bad poetry requires talent--inverse talent, to be sure-- but talent nonetheless. The 131 poems collected in this anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. 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).
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- Title Very Bad Poetry
- Author Ross Petras/ Kathryn Petras
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage Books, New York
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0679776222
- ISBN 9780679776222 / 0679776222
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 4.52 x 0.46 in (19.05 x 11.48 x 1.17 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry, English poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96051788
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.008
From the publisher
From the jacket flap
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).
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).