{"product_id":"9780679776222","title":"Very Bad Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting very bad poetry requires talent.  It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius.  From Fred Emerson Brooks' \"The Stuttering Lover\" to Matthew Green's \"The Spleen\" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided \"An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy\", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), \u003cb\u003eVery Bad Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013880758512,"sku":"9780679776222","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679776222_p0.jpg?v=1763609068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679776222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}