| Collected Poems: 1944-1979 Contributor(s): Amis, Kingsley (Author), James, Clive (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590178661 ISBN-13: 9781590178669 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 2015044619 |
| Series: Nyrb Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.5" W x 6.9" (0.30 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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?" |