Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
Killer Verse - Poems of Murder and Mayhem
Harold Schechter
Everyman's Library
2011
255 páginas
8h 30m
ISBN-13: 9780307700933
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Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter é professor de literatura e cultura americana na Queens College, na Universidade da Cidade de Nova York. Renomado por suas obras sobre crimes verídicos, ele é autor dos livros de não ficção Fiend, Bestial, Deviante, Deranged, Depraved e, com David Everitt, The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Também é autor da aclamada série sobre Edgar Allan Poe, incluindo Nevermore, The Hum Bug, The Mask of Red Death e The Tell-Tale Corpse. Harold Schechter mora no estado de Nova York.
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