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Collected Poems

1944-1979

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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?”

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
June 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
168
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
790.4
KB

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