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Summary: Just about the most worthwhile...bucks I've ever spent
Review: This book is not to be read in public unless you don't mind attacting attention when you burst out laughing to the point you are in tears. There are no words to describe these poets and their works--at least no words I can use here. This is a must-have addition to everyone's library. Stock up for next Christmas!
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Summary: Bet You Can't Order Just One!
Review: This book is not to be read in public unless you don't mind attacting attention when you burst out laughing to the point you are in tears. There are no words to describe these poets and their works--at least no words I can use here. This is a must-have addition to everyone's library. Stock up for next Christmas!
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Summary: Incredibly funny!
Review: Very bad poetry is the funniest collection of poetry ever! My favorite poem is "Ode To the Mammoth Cheese"! If you like poetry, this is a must read!
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Summary: Some Reviews for "VERY BAD POETRY"
Review: Washington Post: Exceedingly amusing little book....Every page of [Very Bad Poetry] makes its title seem, if anything, wicked understatement.Star-Ledger: Interesting and enormously funny... Chicago Tribune: Poems that will make you cringe in horror -- and laugh until you cry... Memphis Flyer: 129 of the stupidest -- and funniest -- pomems every written. If your taste in poetry runs to the macabre, the morbid, the depraved or the deformed, "Very Bad Poetry" is the anthology for you. San Francisco Bay Guardian: ...an amusing collection of work by historically unheralded authors who actually won't very good at their craft....one of the best aspects of the book is the dry commentary that accompanies the verses... Chicago Sun-Time: A wicked little compendium of the most wretched verse ever committed in English... For a writer, the elevating grace of this book is its proof that no matter how despairingly bad your own stuff seems, someone, somewhere, has done even worse.
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Summary: Very Bad Poetry a Very Good Read!
Review: What makes a poem very bad? There is no definitive answer of course, though Kathryn and Ross Petras list several common elements, like "a well-honed sense of the anticlimactic," unfortunate rhymes, and overzealous use of literary devices.It may seem as though it's easy enough to write a very bad poem, given these strategies, and yet the editors would beg to differ: "Unlike the plainly bad or the merely mediocre, very bad poetry is powerful stuff. Like great literature, it moves us emotionally, but, of course, it often does so in ways the writer never intended: usually we laugh." And so you will as you make your way through one dazzlingly bad poem after another, lingering on such pinnacles as the editors have designated "The Most Lurid Account of a Tragedy," "The Most Convoluted Syntax," and last and certainly least, "The Worst Poem Ever Written in the English Language," titled (appropriately!) "A Tragedy" which opens with the lines: Death!/Plop./The barges down the river flop. Why should a writer aspiring to very good poetry want to read Very Bad Poetry? For the sheer fun of it, of course, and for the comfort of knowing no matter how bad you think your poem is, it cannot be as bad as the very bad poetry therein!
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Summary: Very Bad Poetry a Very Good Read!
Review: What makes a poem very bad? There is no definitive answer of course, though Kathryn and Ross Petras list several common elements, like "a well-honed sense of the anticlimactic," unfortunate rhymes, and overzealous use of literary devices.It may seem as though it's easy enough to write a very bad poem, given these strategies, and yet the editors would beg to differ: "Unlike the plainly bad or the merely mediocre, very bad poetry is powerful stuff. Like great literature, it moves us emotionally, but, of course, it often does so in ways the writer never intended: usually we laugh." And so you will as you make your way through one dazzlingly bad poem after another, lingering on such pinnacles as the editors have designated "The Most Lurid Account of a Tragedy," "The Most Convoluted Syntax," and last and certainly least, "The Worst Poem Ever Written in the English Language," titled (appropriately!) "A Tragedy" which opens with the lines: Death!/Plop./The barges down the river flop. Why should a writer aspiring to very good poetry want to read Very Bad Poetry? For the sheer fun of it, of course, and for the comfort of knowing no matter how bad you think your poem is, it cannot be as bad as the very bad poetry therein!
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