Killer Verse
Poems of Murder and Mayhem
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2011
Summary
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841597904 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841597902 |
| Author: | Kurt Brown, Harold Schechter |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 110mm x 165mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
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Kurt Brown
Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture. Renowned for his true-crime writing, he is the author of the nonfiction books “Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, ” and, with David Everitt, “The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers”. He is also the author of “Nevermore” and “The Hum Bug”, the acclaimed historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe. He lives in New York State.
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