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American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (American Poets Project)
American Wits An Anthology of Light Verse - American Poets Project
Author: John Hollander (Editor)
Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse -- a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The Devil's Dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, Am...  more » gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes Edwin Arlington Robinson, Don Marquis, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Morley, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash, Phyllis McGinley, and Anthony Hecht.
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ISBN-13: 9781931082495
ISBN-10: 1931082499
Publication Date: 10/13/2003
Pages: 194
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Publisher: Library of America
Book Type: Hardcover
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