{"product_id":"very-bad-poetry-isbn-9780679776222","title":"Very Bad Poetry","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), \u003cb\u003eVery Bad Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).\u003cb\u003eKathryn\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRoss Petras\u003c\/b\u003e are a brother and sister team who wrote \u003cb\u003eThe 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said\u003c\/b\u003e.  They live in New York City.From \u003cb\u003e\"The Stuttering Lover\"\u003c\/b\u003e by Emerson Brooks (1894):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI lu-love you very well,\u003cbr\u003eMuch mu-more than I can tell,\u003cbr\u003eWith a lu-lu-lu-lu-love I cannot utter;\u003cbr\u003eI kn-know just what to say\u003cbr\u003eBut my tongue gets in the way,\u003cbr\u003eAnd af-fe-fe-fe-fe-fection's bound to stutter!\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Potato\"\u003c\/b\u003e by Eliza Cook (1818-1839):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe useful and the beautiful\u003cbr\u003eAre not far apart we know.\u003cbr\u003eAnd thus the beautiful are glad to have,\u003cbr\u003eThe homely looking Potato.\u003cbr\u003eOn the land, or on the sea,\u003cbr\u003eWherever we may go,\u003cbr\u003eWe are always glad to welcome\u003cbr\u003eThe homely Potato.\u003cbr\u003eA practical and moral lesson\u003cbr\u003eThis may plainly show,\u003cbr\u003eThat though homely, our heart can be\u003cbr\u003eLike that of the homely Potato.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299857518821,"sku":"NP9780679776222","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679776222.jpg?v=1767743422","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/very-bad-poetry-isbn-9780679776222","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}