The Joke's On Me - Couverture souple

O'Carroll, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1949229416 ISBN 13 : 9781949229417

Editeur : Kelsay Books, 2019

Synopsis

Chris O’Carroll is one of the smartest, deftest poets around. Maybe you’ve chortled at his verse in The Spectator, Lighten Up Online, Light, and other publications whose humor prizes he deservedly vacuums up. And if that’s what you know and love him for, this collection won’t disappoint. (For proof, check out the hilarious likes of “Night Sky” and “Twelve Steps.”) But O’Carroll can also be memorably rueful, tender, angry, or contemplative – or, above all, romantic. Love poems such as “Your Paracrostic Fool” and “Just Before the Sound” brim with self-deprecating charm. And in the bawdy tour de force “Quark Sestina,” O’Carroll brings new physicality to particle physics – just as you’d expect from a guy whose wit is a quantum leap ahead.

Melissa Balmain, editor of Light, author Walking in on People

I’d like to say the phrase “meta-literate ability” sprang to mind when I read this collection, but it didn’t. I found it while I was reading, giving rise to that little ooh of pleasurable discovery. There are lots of those moments in this collection; it is the work of a master craftsman.

Here, among classic forms such as sonnets, sestinas and paracrostics, are many less familiar ways of saying. There are observations, love poems and parodies; witty answers to challenges alongside simple, and sometimes shameless, appeals to like minds and open hearts.It is a glorious celebration of the joy of words.

Ann Drysdale. editor of Angle,author Miss Jekyll’s Gardening Boots

O’Carroll’s wit combines the best of Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker. He’s a light verser wielding lightning.

Tom Daley, author of House You Cannot Reach

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kelsay Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1949229416
• ISBN 13: 9781949229417
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 101
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg