Bad Poetry

Author : Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780679776222

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Very Bad Poetry by Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras Pdf

Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

Author : Gabbie Hanna
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501178337

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Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna Pdf

Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice with a magical ability to connect through alienation, cut to the profound with internet slang, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first because she gets you.

Author : Pamela August Russell
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1402767870

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B Is for Bad Poetry by Pamela August Russell Pdf

A hysterical collection of bad poetry. It includes such work as: "Tea For Two" ("A Tragedy"); "Nietzsche And The Ice-Cream Truck"; "Capitalism Can Fall Not Like I Fell For You"; "Inappropriately Touched By An Angel"; and, "Love Is Like A Toilet Bowl."

Author : Lili Reinhart
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781250261762

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Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart Pdf

Instant New York Times Bestseller The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don’t lose your place. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own.

Author : Lily Luverton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798728482932

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The Worst Poetry Book Ever by Lily Luverton Pdf

This book will leave you in silence. Whether it be from tears of laughter or from a single recurring thought: "WTF did I just read?", The Worst Poetry Book Ever, is quite literally the worst poetry book ever. I hope you like it! Or hate it!

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712334

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The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner Pdf

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.

Author : Alejo A Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647019753

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Bad Poetry by Alejo A Rodriguez Pdf

Can you be vulnerable? People have a hard enough time being vulnerable with their friends and family. Now imagine that vulnerability cast upon the world. This collection was created without pretentiousness, never assuming its publishing would ever see the light of day. The deepest fear had to be overcome in order for light to shine on Bad Poetry. Sometimes you're just lost--lost in love, lost in tragedy, lost in confusion... The list is endless, but the one element that remains constant is emotion. Tumbleweed shows you're not alone on this journey. Bad Poetry, Vol. 1: Tumbleweed is the first installment in this poetry series. Just like a tumbleweed moving freely without direction throughout the desert, the poems in this book were written the same manner.

Author : Gabbie Hanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471197778

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Dandelion by Gabbie Hanna Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Gabbie Hanna delivers everything from curious musings to gut-wrenching confessionals in her long-awaited sophomore collection of illustrated poetry. In this visually thrilling installment of the inner-workings of Gabbie's mind, we're taken on a journey of self-loathing, self-reflection, and ultimately, self-acceptance through deeply metaphorical imagery, chilling twists on child-like rhymes, and popular turns of phrase turned on their heads. Through raw, provocative tidbits, Dandelion explores what it means to struggle with a declining mental health in a world where mental health is both stigmatised and trivialised. The poems range from topics of rage and despair to downright silliness, so if you don't know whether to laugh or cry, just laugh until you cry. Exclusive bonus content: a collection of uncomfortably honest personal essays about Gabbie's childhood and relationships.

Author : Sara Bynoe
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781466891531

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Teen Angst by Sara Bynoe Pdf

Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry is the first, the best, and the biggest collection of teen angst poetry ever to be published. Inspired by the popularity of her interactive website, editor Sara Bynoe has compiled the definitive teen angst reader. Divided into 12 categories, including I am Alone and No One Understands My Pain and Obvious Metaphors, this book is for anyone who has ever written truly terrible, meditative, or self-indulgent poetry. Actually, this book is for anyone who survived being a teenager. All of the poets featured in this collection are now adults, living happy, angst-free lives. However, for this special book, they are willing to reveal excerpts from their old tattered notebooks or leather bound journals. Along with the poems, each poet has included a short introduction, giving background information for each work. As Sara Bynoe says, looking back on teen angst poetry brings people together in a "poetry reading meets stand-up comedy meets AA" sort of way.

Author : Walter Benton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307805133

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This Is My Beloved by Walter Benton Pdf

“Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching honesty or with rhapsody so involving unconscious pathos. Those who seek to drag any honest writing through the gutters of their own minds will do the same with this. Those who are not afraid of the strange miracle of life will understand this brave verse.” —William Rose Benét

Author : Robert Budde
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359617548

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The More Easily Kept Illusions The Poetry of Al Purdy by Robert Budde Pdf

Author : Adam Fitzgerald
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871406996

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The Late Parade: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald Pdf

A debut collection that welcomes a new modernist aesthetic for the twenty-first century. Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut collection, readers discover forty-eight poems that yoke together tones playful and elegiac, nostalgic and absurd. Fitzgerald's shape-shifting inspirations "beckon us to join an urban promenade" (McLane) with a multiplicity of chimerical stops: from the unreal cities of Dubai to the former Soviet Union, from Nigerian spammers and the Virgin Mary to Dr. Johnson and Cat Power. "The glory of this volume is the long title poem, which carries the primal vision of Hart Crane into a future that does not surrender the young poet’s love of the real," writes Harold Bloom. Mash-ups of litanies, monologues and odes, these poems spring from a modernist landscape filled with madcap slips of tongue, innuendo, archaisms and everyday slang. Though Fitzgerald's lines often hallucinate meanings that feel open-ended, they never ignore the traditional pleasures of poetic craft and memory, their music an ambient drone—part Technicolor, part nitrous oxide. Even so, what glues these fantasies together is more than the charm of the maddeningly chameleon rhetoric. Fitzgerald's sonorous voice is unabashedly that of a love poet's: melancholic, baroque and visionary. The Late Parade is a testament to the powers of confusion, which may disguise our sense of loss but offer in return that eloquent tonic known as poetry. As Richard Howard writes, "When the new poet turns up the heat, he gives us just the necessary outrages which make us understand what we never knew we could say."

Author : Jewel
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062029225

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A Night Without Armor by Jewel Pdf

One of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry success with her debut album selling more than 10 million copies. Before her gifted songwriting comes an even more individual art: Poetry. Now available in paperback, A Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are both intimate and inspiring, to be embraced and enjoyed. Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.

Author : Irving T. Duck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520610610

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Really BAD Poetry by Irving T. Duck Pdf

A book of poems, or if you can call them that, otherwise they are the ramblings of a sick and twisted guy hiding in his closet with dreams of power tools, bodily fluids, and small furry mammals. If this poetry doesn't annoy you, you're not thinking hard enough. Also similar to Vogon poetry.

Author : Halsey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982135614

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I Would Leave Me If I Could. by Halsey Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey’s poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power. Masterful as it is raw, passionate, and profound, I Would Leave Me If I Could signals the arrival of an essential voice. Book cover painting, American Woman, by the author.