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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 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).

Very Bad Poetry Vintage

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A Paperback / softback by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras

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    Publisher: Random House USA Inc
    Publication Date: 25/03/1997
    ISBN13: 9780679776222, 978-0679776222
    ISBN10: 0679776222
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    Description

    Book 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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