Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews

By Henry S. Taylor

Book Overview

Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageously fictional) biographies invented just over 100... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125636
• ISBN13: 9780807125632
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Length: 51 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Above All, Voice

The poet admits "brief." So these candles are. But each extinguished by thumb and index moistened by an expert tongue. How I wish that the average poem in the Atlantic Monthly could offer the wit and verve and originality of the average line in this enjoyable collection.