Funny: Volume 12

By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Book Overview

A tour de force, Funny is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell, and tells marvelous stories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299214044
• ISBN13: 9780299214043
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Funny and great

Buy this bbok. Jennifer Michael Hecht is a remarkable poet. Wise, clever and funny.

Two Guys Walk Into A Book Store...

... and first one (my friend) picks up a copy of "Funny" and says to the second one (me), "You should really read this poet. She's fantastic." Well, the joke is on him, because I've been following Hecht's work for a long time, in Poetry Magazine and other places. Because she -is- fantastic and this new book is quite simply brilliant. I'm usually wary of books with a central theme or conceit, but I waded into "Funny" with full confidence in Hecht's amazing ability to thrill me, chlll me, make me laugh, make me cry, make me think. I'm stunned and humbled by her poems and heartily recommend "Funny" to anyone, especially new poetry readers. My favorites in this collection are "Propogation of the Species," "Gorilla and the Darkening Room," and the sonnet "Prosody on Comedy." Do yourself a favor and get in on the ground floor with this talented poet, before she wins the major awards that are assuredly coming her way. No joke.