The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry- Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, etc

✍ Scribed by Ross, Kathryn; Ross, Petras

• Book ID: 107193243
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: "Upon Pondering Breasts." Tom Cruise: "An Exegesis on Psychiatry." Ann Coulter: "My Kind of Fun." And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:

_I think it's his self-

confidence in himself that

makes him confident._

With their great gift for curating the inane public utterances of celebrities, politicians, and other self-important loudmouths, Kathryn and Ross Petras offer a timeless collection of "found" poetry--real quotes formatted as verse for hilarious and surprising effect. The quotes are inherently addictive and funny--but turning them into verse intensifies the effect, making the words even more ridiculous, parodies to revel in. And the Petrases take it one step further: organizing the poems by themes, introducing each work with a Norton Anthology mock seriousness...