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Collected Poems: 1944-1979

Collected Poems: 1944-1979

Amis, Kingsley
James, Clive

Paperback

Series: Nyrb Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 1590178661
ISBN13: 9781590178669
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 21 2016
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.50 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
Kingsley Amis's poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels--lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death--and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. As Amis writes: Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, / Whose touch will burn, but I'm asbestos, see?

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