The Best Worst Poet Ever

Author : Lauren Stohler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534446298

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The Best Worst Poet Ever by Lauren Stohler Pdf

Furry rivals Cat and Pug have a rhyme-riddled showdown in this hilarious and delightfully quirky picture book about the joys of writing poetry—playfully imagined by the creator of social media sensation Inkpug! There once was a Pug and a Cat Who engaged in a poetic spat… Cat and Pug are each determined to become the World’s Best Poet, no matter what it takes. Whether they’re writing sonnets to sundaes or typing ballads with their butts, they will stop at nothing to outwit, out-write, and out-verse each other. But perhaps there is an even greater prize to be had: Can these two rivals discover the wonderful joy of writing…together?

Author : William McGonagall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106005319733

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The World's Worst Poet by William McGonagall Pdf

Author : Lauren Stohler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534493445

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The Problem with Pajamas by Lauren Stohler Pdf

From the author-illustrator of The Best Worst Poet Ever comes a delightfully zany and hilarious picture book about a young girl’s campaign against uncomfortable pajamas. Pajamas are the worst! They zap you! They trap you! They scritch and they scratch you! And then, when you think it can’t get any worse, they make your feet sweat. Cody has had enough of wrinkly socks, itchy sweaters, and too-tight pants, so she’s definitely not going to wear PJs to bed. But Dad has a soft, snuggly plan that just might help Cody realize some pajamas aren’t so awful after all.

Author : Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Walter Benton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Gabbie Hanna
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Lindsay H. Metcalf,Keila V. Dawson,Jeanette Bradley
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781632898999

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No Voice Too Small by Lindsay H. Metcalf,Keila V. Dawson,Jeanette Bradley Pdf

Fans of We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices will love meeting fourteen young activists who have stepped up to make change in their community and the United States. Mari Copeny demanded clean water in Flint. Jazz Jennings insisted, as a transgirl, on playing soccer with the girls' team. From Viridiana Sanchez Santos's quinceañera demonstration against anti-immigrant policy to Zach Wahls's moving declaration that his two moms and he were a family like any other, No Voice Too Small celebrates the young people who know how to be the change they seek. Fourteen poems honor these young activists. Featuring poems by Lesléa Newman, Traci Sorell, and Nikki Grimes. Additional text goes into detail about each youth activist's life and how readers can get involved.

Author : Lily Luverton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Chris Hunt,Colin Walker
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780857900739

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William McGonagall by Chris Hunt,Colin Walker Pdf

William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeare's plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself 'to be a poet'. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotland's alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections – Poetic Gems, More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems, and also includes an introduction by Chris Hunt, the webmaster of the McGonagall website www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk, indexes of poem titles and first lines, and features the first publication of McGonagall's only play, Jack o' the Cudgel, written in 1886 but not performed publicly until 2002.

Author : D.B. Wyndham Lewis,Charles Lee
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1590170385

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The Stuffed Owl by D.B. Wyndham Lewis,Charles Lee Pdf

The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter . . . On the contrary . . . Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetites of, 59;. . . Manure, adjudged a fit subject for the Muse, 91") that is itself an inspired work of folly.

Author : Jewel
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Jim Theis
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780809562619

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The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis Pdf

This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.

Author : Neil Hilborn
Publisher : Button Poetry
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781943735396

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The Future by Neil Hilborn Pdf

Neil Hilborn's highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find comfort in hard nights and better days. Filled with nostalgia, love, heartbreak, and the author's signature wry examinations of mental health, this book helps explain what lives inside us, what we struggle to define. Written on the road over two years of touring, The Future is rugged, genuine, and relatable. Grabbing attention like gravity, Hilborn reminds readers that no matter how far away we get, we eventually all drift back together. These poems are fireworks for the numb. In the author's own words, The Future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas, and in it, we are alive.

Author : Amanda Lovelace,ladybookmad
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781449486440

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the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace,ladybookmad Pdf

From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration. the princess saves herself in this one is the first book in the "women are some kind of magic" series.