Killer verse, poems of murder and mayhem, edited by Harold Schechter and Kurt Brown
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Killer verse, poems of murder and mayhem, edited by Harold Schechter and Kurt Brown
Language
eng
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Killer verse
Oclc number
699763924
Responsibility statement
edited by Harold Schechter and Kurt Brown
Series statement
Everyman's library pocket poets
Sub title
poems of murder and mayhem
Summary
The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping?and criminally entertaining?collection. --Publisher
Table of contents
All in the family -- Murder ballads -- Vers noir -- The mind of the murderer -- Psycho killer -- Victims -- Mediations on murder
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