Description
| Product ID: | 9781841597904 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
| Title: | Killer Verse |
| Subtitle: | Poems of Murder and Mayhem |
| Authors: | Author: Harold Schechter, Kurt Brown |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men. In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men. Browning, Hardy, Auden, Mark Doty, Thom Gunn, Simon Armitage and Stevie Smith are only a few of the wide range of poets, old and new, whose comic, chilling and occasionally profound poetic musings on murder are gathered in this uniquely - and irresistibly - heart-racing volume. |
| Imprint Name: | Everyman's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Everyman |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-09-30 |
