{"product_id":"9781929918966","title":"Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008","description":"\u003cp\u003e“X. J. Kennedy’s well-known travels between the realms of the comic and the serious qualify him for dual citizenship in the world of poetry. Here, the playful is on full display in verse not just ‘light’ but bright and delightful.”—Billy Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeeping Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length collection of light verse for adults composed by one of America’s most celebrated poets. An uncompromising formalist, Kennedy uses a broad range of longstanding poetic forms, including limerick, nursery rhyme, ballad, rhymed epitaph, and clerihew. This collection includes many poems previously published in poetry and popular journals, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e. These poems honor and skewer all classes of citizen, regardless of their revered place in society. Parents, lovers, poetry critics, students, and especially notable literary figures receive Kennedy’s astute comic attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“To Someone Who Insisted I Look Up Someone”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI rang them up while touring Timbuktu,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThose bosom chums to whom you’re known as “Who?”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX. J. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e has published six collections of verse, including \u003ci\u003eNude Descending a Staircase\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets. His newest collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Lords of Misrule\u003c\/i\u003e, received the 2004 Poets’ Prize. Kennedy has also authored eighteen children’s books and several textbooks on fiction and poetry. Other recognitions include the Los Angeles Book Award for Poetry, the Aiken-Taylor Award, and Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships. Kennedy was also given the first Michael Braude Award for light verse by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040187465968,"sku":"9781929918966","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781929918966_p0.jpg?v=1763638167","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781929918966","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}