| #3517290 in Books | BOA Editions Ltd. | 2007-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.40 x6.00l,.41 | File type: PDF | 120 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent traditional comic verse|By Jon Corelis|X. J. Kennedy is well known as a formalist poet, that is, one who writes in traditional strong metrical or stanzaic forms. His comic verse is traditionalist not only in form, but also in mood and content: it is part of tradition of what you might call, paradoxically, "serious comic verse" which goes back through Swift to Martia|From Publishers Weekly|Accompanying Kennedy's forthcoming selected (serious) poems, this agreeably cantankerous, occasionally laugh-out-loud-funny volume gathers brief parodies, barbed rhymes, naughty couplets and other assorted not-so-serious verse, dating (des
“X. J. Kennedy’s well-known travels between the realms of the comic and the serious qualify him for dual citizenship in the world of poetry. Here, the playful is on full display in verse not just ‘light’ but bright and delightful.”—Billy Collins
Peeping Tom’s Cabin is the first full-length collection of light verse for adults composed by one of America’s most celebrated poets. An uncompromising formali...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008 (American Poets Continuum) | X.J. Kennedy. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
