PHILOSOBABBLE: Poems and Other Stuff - Couverture souple

Pryke, Mr Richard Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1798160765 ISBN 13 : 9781798160763

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Richard has been described as 'Australia's Greatest Living Poet' (thanks Mum) and 'The Greatest Creative Force in The Universe since The Big Bang' (thanks Dad). His interest in matters philosophical and political is reflected in his poetry. About PHILOSOBABBLE he says, "I’ve always liked the pithy one-liner, the phrase that succinctly states a truth, like ‘I’d rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it’ (Will Rogers) or ‘There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up’ (John Holmes). As Samuel Johnson put it, “He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory and so recur habitually to the mind”. Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with the above sentiment, not everything is capable of being condensed into just a few words, is it? Sometimes you need a few more syllables to better make your point or state your truth. And that’s the intention with these poems. Now, I try to make my poems rhyme and scan. I realize this is a bit passé these days but I like the cerebral challenge and, well, I just think poetry should – as the American poet Robert Frost put it, “I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down”. It’s not always easy but, to steal a phrase from JFK, “we choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard”. If and to what extent I have succeeded, I leave you to decide. By the way, I’ve included some other, non-poetry, stuff that also tries to make a point. I hope you enjoy it. In anticipation of an overwhelmingly positive public response to the book, we have taken the liberty of writing a few of the likely reviews in advance: "This is the poetry Jesus would have written, if he hadn't cut English to go to Woodwork class" - Pope Francis II "This is the best, in fact only, goddamned piece of paper..er book I've read since 'My Pet Goat'" - President George W. Bush "I used to think poetry was just for girlie-men, but now I'm not so sure" - Arnold Schwarzenegger "The best ten bucks I've invested since I bought more Berkshire Hathaway shares in 1962” - Warren Buffet "That it rhymes and scans (mostly) is a quaint reminder of a bygone age but it is certainly not poetry in the modern literary sense" - Peregrine Fforbes-Smythe, Times Literary Supplement "I don't have a silly beard" - Osama Bin Laden (N.B. For the benefit of any dullards considering purchasing this book, the reviews above are fictitious and may not accurately reflect the views of Pope Francis, President Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Warren Buffet and Osama bin Laden - but I haven't asked them, so what do I know?)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1798160765
• ISBN 13: 9781798160763
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 60
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