Seriously Funny Poems About Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and

  
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.

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 Touré said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of. Hope its readers find much to share with others. This item is in the category "Books & Magazines\Books". The seller is "greatbookprices1" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, Japan, Australia.

• ISBN: 9780820330877
• EAN: 9780820330877
• Book Title: Seriously Funny : Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
• Item Length: 9.2in.
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Year: 2010
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Item Height: 1.2in.
• Author: Wanda Coleman
• Genre: Poetry
• Topic: Anthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General
• Item Width: 6.2in.

• Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
• Number of Pages: 440 Pages