Satirical Poetry | Poetry
|
Jun.25.2011
At the time I was publishing in Bogg: A Journal of American and British Writing, in the 1980's, it was a journal of most original, often funny, satirical, and sometimes outlandish poetry from both America and the UK. I was proud to be in this journal with poets like Charles Bukowski. Also, Bogg...
|
Dec.04.2010
In Ms Militancy Meena Kandasamy stands myths on their heads in highly experimental poems, which critic and poet K. Satchidanandan says, “shock and sting the readers until they are provoked into rethinking the ‘time-honoured’ traditions and entrenched hierarchies at work in contemporary society”.
“...
|
Nov.10.2010
Forget Shakespeare. Don’t count on Donne. Shelley and Keats: banished! And there’s absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest of us—bad poetry!
...
|
Nov.30.2009
A DOLPHIN has 8 punning pictures by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), and no index but a dual Table of Contents, one ordinal and one categorical. The main title is part of a phrase from Horace who warned those who played with words and variation in translation to take care lest they end up with a dolphin...
|
Jun.05.2009
short summary This is the first book to translate a broad spectrum of the informal, improper and generally comic side of 31-syllable Japanese poetry called ‘kyoka,’ or ‘kyouka,’ literally, “mad-poems” or “madcap verse,” representing “absolute freedom both in respect of language and choice of...
|
Apr.23.2009
Be they spiritual, sexual or just romantic––the connections are always hard to make for the speaker in these poems. But they take you through their existential angst with humor, wit and once in a while a gentle insight.
|