Funny |
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Author:
| Hecht, Jennifer Michael |
Series title: | Wisconsin Poetry Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-299-21400-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2005 |
Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $26.95USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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A tour de force, Funny is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell, and tells marvelous...
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A tour de force, Funny is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell, and tells marvelous stories.