Seriously Funny

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330876
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Seriously Funny by : Barbara Hamby

Download or read book Seriously Funny written by Barbara Hamby and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.

Drawn to Marvel

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ISBN 13 : 9780991259601
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Drawn to Marvel by : Bryan D. Dietrich

Download or read book Drawn to Marvel written by Bryan D. Dietrich and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807163702
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (637 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours by : Bianca Stone

Download or read book Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours written by Bianca Stone and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful mutants, vagabond scuba divers, lovers with disordered gorilla hearts: These poetry comics place the lyric and the grotesque, the elegant and the despondent, side by side in one emotionally intense panel after another. At the vanguard of a movement that embraces our increasingly visual culture and believes poetry has an essential place therein, Bianca Stone redefines how we think about poetry, what we expect from comics, and how we interpret our own lives. Although reminiscent of illuminations by William Blake, Thomas Phillips's A Humument, and more recent visual-poetic hybrids by Mary Ruefle and Matthea Harvey, Stone's comics feature a mixture of dreamy expression and absurdist wit that is entirely her own. Her watercolor panels are filled with anthropomorphic horses and baffled ballerinas that guide the reader through the poet's graphic dreamscape: "I was moving like a monsoon through a forest. I was thinking about where I saw myself in two thousand years... And where I saw myself was a tiny subspace ripple sliding through the corridors with a plastic horse in my hand." This book, its own small universe, erases genre distinctions between the visual and the literary, and offers readers a poetic vision of artistic possibilities.

Very Bad Poetry

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679776222
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Very Bad Poetry by : Kathryn Petras

Download or read book Very Bad Poetry written by Kathryn Petras and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448140498
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems by : Griff Rhys Jones

Download or read book Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems written by Griff Rhys Jones and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky' to lesser known and forgotten gems such as Gelett Burgess's 'The Purple Cow', Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a poetic tour of witty, nonsensical and plain laugh-out-loud funny poems. The selection brings together poets from every age and every walk of life, from Shakespeare to Victoria Wood and from Keats to Benjamin Zephaniah. There is Roald Dahl's cunning variation on 'Little Red Riding Hood', Spike Milligan's brilliantly ridiculous 'On the Ning Nang Nong' as well as several entries from the ever-elusive Anon, including one delightfully succint 'Peas'. Remembered, half-remembered, cherished or written on a tea towel, here are some of the nation's favourite comic poems.

The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood" by Thomas Hood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Comic Poems of the Years 1685, and 1793

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Comic Poems of the Years 1685, and 1793 by : Robert Brown

Download or read book Comic Poems of the Years 1685, and 1793 written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Someone Else's Wedding Vows

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Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1935639749
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Someone Else's Wedding Vows by : Bianca Stone

Download or read book Someone Else's Wedding Vows written by Bianca Stone and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated debut collection from a celebrated young poet, Someone Else's Wedding Vows marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in American poetry. Someone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts a human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psychological, and even supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing towards the absurdity of our choices. They recede into the imaginative in order to understand and translate the distressing nature of reality. It is a bittersweet question this book raises: Why we are like this? There is no easy answer. So while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.

Comic Timing

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Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783786876
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Comic Timing written by Holly Pester and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our times, mining radical and anarchic histories to offer a collection of political resistance with both absurdity and seriousness. These poems interrogate and poke fun at the expectations of people in a commodified culture with a wry humour. Combining a beautifully performed naivety with a profound intellect, this collection is a hugely original approach to a number of pressing issues. Worker's rights, feminisms, reproductive rights and marginalised bodies and their positions are all thought through in this startling and innovative voice.

Just Kidding

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522841548
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis Just Kidding by : Martin Pierce

Download or read book Just Kidding written by Martin Pierce and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of funny poems will have you laughing out loud. There are rhymes about animals, school, weird monsters - in fact, anything that is unusual, silly or just plain daft. Definitely not a book to be missed by anyone who is under the age of 140 years old with a sense of the absurd.

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192840868
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by : John Gross

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Comic Verse written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally widerange of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful; written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included; so are many recent writers - the classics of the future. This collection undoubtedly contains matterof great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.

Humorous Poems of Thomas Hood

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Humorous Poems of Thomas Hood written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humorous Poems of Thomas Hood, Including Love and Lunacy, Ballads

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book Humorous Poems of Thomas Hood, Including Love and Lunacy, Ballads written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

COMIC'S NOTEBOOK AND THE EAGLELIGHT CLUB: Selected Poems

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1678183733
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (781 download)

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Book Synopsis COMIC'S NOTEBOOK AND THE EAGLELIGHT CLUB: Selected Poems by : Lucille Jones

Download or read book COMIC'S NOTEBOOK AND THE EAGLELIGHT CLUB: Selected Poems written by Lucille Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Treasury of Humorous Poetry

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Publisher : Boston : Dana Estes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis A Treasury of Humorous Poetry by : Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Download or read book A Treasury of Humorous Poetry written by Frederic Lawrence Knowles and published by Boston : Dana Estes. This book was released on 1902 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poems of Thomas Sheridan

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134957
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poems of Thomas Sheridan by : Thomas Sheridan

Download or read book The Poems of Thomas Sheridan written by Thomas Sheridan and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reputation of Thomas Sheridan has probably suffered from the occasional ridicule of his longtime friend and collaborator Jonathan Swift. Nevertheless, Swift valued Sheridan's wit and company immensely, and the verse-warfares in which the two friends often indulged were not always won by Swift." "Sheridan was not only one of the most memorable Dubliners of the early eighteenth century. Convivial, charming, highspirited, and feckless, he was also a prominent schoolmaster (the best in Europe, according to Swift), cleric, translator, playwright, essayist, and a prolific writer of accomplished light verse. Called Tom Pun-Sibi, or Tom the Punster, because of his droll essay The Art of Punning, he poured forth a seemingly endless stream of punning satires, verse letters to his friends, and satirical observations on the Dublin of his day." "For all of his prolific output, only some of his Swift poems have remained in print, and they are in various editions of Swift's verse. This volume gathers together for the first time Sheridan's complete poetic works, including those published as broadsides or in contemporary journals and those contained in unpublished letters and manuscripts. Of particular interest for such a social poet is the inclusion of poems to and about Sheridan by his many friends and very vocal enemies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Humorous Poetry of the English Language

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Humorous Poetry of the English Language by : James Parton

Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: