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Synopsis
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).
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From the Publisher
Worse than you think
As editor-in-chief of Vintage books, I have published some truly distinguished books in my career. This definitely is not one of them. The poems in this volume are so excruciatingly awful that they have to be read (preferably aloud) to be believed. The best (or worst) thing about them is that they were all written to be taken seriously. Among the classics to be found in this volume: "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy," "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese,"A Pindaricque on the Grunting of a Hog." This is a truly, albeit inadvertently awful book. In 20 years of publishing it's probably the funniest book I've ever released. It's hard to explain why very bad poetry is so hilarious or why so many people who appreciate great poetry also love bad poetry. It's a kind of perverse art form. And this book, alas, is The Bible of the odious genre. It's also probably the world's greatest gift for any English teacher you love or hate.
About the Author
Kathryn and Ross Petras are a brother and sister team who wrote The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said. They live in New York City.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679776222
- ISBN 13 9780679776222
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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