Five Lines No Waiting Limericks and Sketches |
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| Author:
| McDermott, Tom |
| Illustrator:
| McDermott, Tom |
| ISBN: | 978-1-944697-77-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2019 |
| 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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Poetry. Art. Music. Now in an expanded second edition, 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...
More DescriptionPoetry. Art. Music. Now in an expanded second edition, 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 individual elegance and generosity of spirit are always to be found.