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Edition:	1	Publisher:	Vintage Books
ISBN-10:	0679776222	Subject:	Humor
ISBN-13:	9780679776222	Topic:	--
Format:	Paperback	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1997	Condition:	Brand New
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Synopsis
An anthology of wonderfully bad poetry written in English, including "Earwigs", "The Spleen", "Oxford Cheese Ode", and "Potato Bug Exterminators".
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Editor:	Kathyrn Petras, Ross Petras

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Length:	126 pages
Height:	7.8 in.
Width:	4.5 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	4.8 oz.

Publisher's Note
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). 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 Greens "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).
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"Why should anyone deliberately read bad poetry? The editors consider their dreadful specimens funny. They must be easily amused." Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Adams (05/19/1997)

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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


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