Very Bad Poetry

Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to writedespite absolutely appalling incompetence.

The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred EmersonBrooks' The Stuttering Lover to Matthew Green's The Spleen to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy, they mangle meter, run rampantover rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.

Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very BadPoetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

From the Trade Paperback edition.

An entertaining anthology of some of the worst poetry ever written includes contributions from unknown writers, as well as terrible works from such acclaimed poets as Whittier and Wordsworth. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Kathryn and Ross Petras are a brother and sister team who wrote The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said.They live in New York City.