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 University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 7.5"

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.