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9780299214005 Academic Inspection Copy

Funny

  • ISBN-13: 9780299214005
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
  • By Jennifer Michael Hecht
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Local release date: 09/02/2006
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 88 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins, 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.
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian who has published several scholarly volumes and one previous collection of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"Funny leaves no doubt that humor has finally reclaimed its legitimate place in American poetry. Playing off a catalogue of jokes which we all recognize, as well as serious theories about the comic, Jennifer Michael Hecht has produced a collection like no other. Her poems are delights, transparently readable yet carefully crafted, precisely poised."-Billy Collins
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