Five Lines No Waiting Limericks and Sketches |
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Author:
| McDermott, Tom |
Illustrator:
| McDermott, Tom |
ISBN: | 978-1-944697-31-0 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
Publisher: | Sagging Meniscus Press
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Imprint: | Sagging Shorts |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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This collection of alert, witty, and world-wise limericks by the great New Orleans jazz pianist and composer Tom McDermott, illustrated with his own drawings, is a snapshot of a restlessly creative mind and heart at play. These "personal nursery rhymes" demonstrate that simplicity of means need not be incompatible with sophistication of ends. In all their various modes -- the frivolously comic, the self-deprecating, the wistful, the gently mocking, the philosophical -- a very...
More DescriptionThis collection of alert, witty, and world-wise limericks by the great New Orleans jazz pianist and composer Tom McDermott, illustrated with his own drawings, is a snapshot of a restlessly creative mind and heart at play. These "personal nursery rhymes" demonstrate that simplicity of means need not be incompatible with sophistication of ends. In all their various modes -- the frivolously comic, the self-deprecating, the wistful, the gently mocking, the philosophical -- a very individual elegance and generosity of spirit are always to be found.