Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Harold Schechter (Editor), Kurt Brown (Editor)Series:Everyman's Library Pocket PoetsPublish date:2011-09-06Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780307700933ISBN-10:307700933UPC:9780307700933Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Anthologies (multiple authors), Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Death, Grief, LossSize:6.51 x 4.45 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB93KYCCK
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder.
The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping--and criminally entertaining--collection.Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780307700933ISBN-10:307700933UPC:9780307700933Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Anthologies (multiple authors), Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Death, Grief, LossSize:6.51 x 4.45 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB93KYCCK
Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, CUNY, and the author of mystery novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe. He lives in New York City. Kurt Brown is the author of four books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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