Murder runs rampant in this spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadliest art.
In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men. Browning, Hardy, Auden, Mark Doty, Thom Gunn, Simon Armitage and Stevie Smith are only a few of the wide range of poets, old and new, whose comic, chilling and occasionally profound poetic musings on murder are gathered in this uniquely - and irresistibly - heart-racing volume.
Edited by:
Kurt Brown, Harold Schechter Imprint: Everyman's Library Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 165mm,
Width: 110mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 232g ISBN:9781841597904 ISBN 10: 1841597902 Series:Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Pages: 256 Publication Date:30 September 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
