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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).
Writing very bad poetry requires talent--inverse talent, to be sure-- but talent nonetheless. The 131 poems collected in this anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. 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). 128 pp. National ads & publicity. 40,000 print.
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David Hagan
reviewed Very Bad Poetry on December 29, 2017
Very Bad Poetry
It's hard to rate a book that's purposefully bad. I enjoyed the introductions to each author, and I appreciated the research that went into compiling these poetic fails. There were definitely funny poems, ones that made no sense, one that made me angry, and a couple that sounded just like every poem I read in high school! I read this straight through in order to accomplish a reading challenge, but I think I might have enjoyed it more if I read a section here or there as the mood hit. It's a lot of bad poetry to read in one sitting!
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