the Stuffed Owl Returns - Crane, Lindsay

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Résumé :
A hilarious new collection of the worst poetry ever composed, by authors both eminent and obscure. Walt Whitman enigmatically wrote, Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy? And Keats actually exclaimed, I am wound up in deep astonishment! Extracts both short and extended are by poets from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Included are an introduction, commentary on each poet, and a daffy index to the bizarre images that have been given to English literature (e.g., Axe, descending, causes condemned men to smile, p. 56; Toad, speckled, a load of spite and hate, p. 37). A worthy and unmissable sequel to the classic and oft-reprinted original, The Stuffed Owl (1930). Illustrated.

Biographie:
Lindsay Crane has published an award-winning novel (a thriller about halting the smuggling of endangered species) and a compendium of satirical political limericks composed by herself and three accomplices. Having discovered the original Stuffed Owl while at college, Crane made it her mission to archive as many additional poetic monstrosities as attracted her notice while she was otherwise engaged, and has now accumulated enough material to form a collection and offer it to an eager public. With advanced degrees and professional publications in psychology under her real name, and many years of experience rescuing native wildlife and supporting the habitats of endangered species around the world, Crane has traveled widely, including to Uganda, Madagascar, Costa Rica, Belize, Ecuador, the Galapagos, and South Africa. Still in her desk drawers are plays, sonnets, and other ephemera.