- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (23 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743211480
- ISBN-13: 978-0743211482
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,540,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More than one hundred previously unpublished poems by Dorothy Parker scrutinize the perils and folly of love, experiment with various rhyme schemes, and tackle topical views of the times in which she lived. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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The literary raconteur Alexander Woollcott only intended to fawn over Dorothy Parker when he included the short (eleven-page) but vastly influential profile in his bestselling 1934 essay collection, While Rome Burns. Read the first page
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The literary raconteur Alexander Woollcott only intended to fawn over Dorothy Parker when he included the short (eleven-page) but vastly influential profile in his bestselling 1934 essay collection, While Rome Burns. Read the first page
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The introduction and ancedotes were what really drew me to this book. The footnotes are wonderful!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a lover of the late Dorothy Parker, this collection is thorough and enjoyable. So many of her poems are lost in old magazines and this book collects them all in one place!
Format:Turtleback
Dime-store Oscar Wilde? No way - this dame is hard as nails. Her updates on Hilaire Belloc knock the likes of Harry Graham into the long grass
Little Gormley stole a purse.
Took it from his crippled nurse.
It was quite a lucky touch -
She'd been saving for a crutch.
So our hero, for a starter,
Bought a seat for "Gertie's Garter".
Spent in vain his gains unlawful -
For he thought the show was awful!
When you plunder Nursie's hoard,
Spend it where you won't be bored.
She mostly plays with more traditional lyric verse-forms. Technically masterful, she's obviously unhappy (haven't read her biog) and the pathos shows through - these have the tang and tingle of aftershave!
Don't know if these are now incorporated into the collected, but this does very nicely
Little Gormley stole a purse.
Took it from his crippled nurse.
It was quite a lucky touch -
She'd been saving for a crutch.
So our hero, for a starter,
Bought a seat for "Gertie's Garter".
Spent in vain his gains unlawful -
For he thought the show was awful!
When you plunder Nursie's hoard,
Spend it where you won't be bored.
She mostly plays with more traditional lyric verse-forms. Technically masterful, she's obviously unhappy (haven't read her biog) and the pathos shows through - these have the tang and tingle of aftershave!
Don't know if these are now incorporated into the collected, but this does very nicely
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