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During the early years of her literary career Dorothy Parker wrote more than 300 poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Many of these were collected in three volumes of poetry. It is the remainder, which she failed to collect and whose very existence has been unknown to most people for more than half a century, that comprise this volume. These 122 forgotten pieces display the raw talent and dexterity of America's most renowned cynic. Some are keen-eyed commentaries on urban life, human relationships and popular culture; others are more personal, celebrating her love of animals or scrutinising the perils of passion; nearly all display the distinctive wit, irony and precision that continue to attract succeeding generations of readers. The introduction recounts Parker's career, showing her to be a pioneer in modern English colloquial usage, and offers a compilation of her witticisms and anecdotes.
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Stuart Y Silverstein is a writer and lawyer, and regular contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is working on a history of the Algonquin Round Table.
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Dorothy Parker was remarkable woman, a beautiful writer and undoubtedly a prominent figure of American literary circles for half a century. Apart from her short stories, plays, screenplays, book and theatre reviews, she is known for her amazing poems. She wrote more then 300 poems for New York newspapers and magazines and she published some of these poems in three poetry collections; "Enough Rope", "Sunset Gun", and "Death and Taxes".
For the most part of her career she was acknowledged for her wit, her cynical remarks and her 'burn the candle at both ends' approach to life, but she was not considered a 'serious' writer. Although she was extremely talented she never took herself seriously and that is precisely her greatest quality. This great collection of poems, are the poems she never chose to include in any of her three poetry collections; perhaps being herself's harshest critic, she did not consider some of these poems good enough to be published. Of course she was wrong and without this fantastic collection, these 122 lovely forgotten poems would never be known to the public and that would be such a terrible loss. Poems like "The Lady In Back", "Love Song", "Fantasy", "Day-Dreams", "Grandfather Said It", "Threat to a Fickle Lady", and her "Hate Verses", to name just a few, are beautiful, moving and very contemporary poems to have.
Apart from her poems this book includes a very good and informative introduction on her life and work, almost 100 pages long, by the Algonquin Round Table historian, Stuart Y Silverstein. It also includes an index of first lines and a very useful complete chronology of all of Dorothy Parker's poems and not just the ones published in this collection. The rest of her poems from "Enough Rope", "Sunset Gun", and "Death and Taxes", are published, along with her wonderful short stories and her reviews in The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics).
For the most part of her career she was acknowledged for her wit, her cynical remarks and her 'burn the candle at both ends' approach to life, but she was not considered a 'serious' writer. Although she was extremely talented she never took herself seriously and that is precisely her greatest quality. This great collection of poems, are the poems she never chose to include in any of her three poetry collections; perhaps being herself's harshest critic, she did not consider some of these poems good enough to be published. Of course she was wrong and without this fantastic collection, these 122 lovely forgotten poems would never be known to the public and that would be such a terrible loss. Poems like "The Lady In Back", "Love Song", "Fantasy", "Day-Dreams", "Grandfather Said It", "Threat to a Fickle Lady", and her "Hate Verses", to name just a few, are beautiful, moving and very contemporary poems to have.
Apart from her poems this book includes a very good and informative introduction on her life and work, almost 100 pages long, by the Algonquin Round Table historian, Stuart Y Silverstein. It also includes an index of first lines and a very useful complete chronology of all of Dorothy Parker's poems and not just the ones published in this collection. The rest of her poems from "Enough Rope", "Sunset Gun", and "Death and Taxes", are published, along with her wonderful short stories and her reviews in The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics).
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I have been a fan of Dorothy Parker's writings, since my Mum introduced me to them in my teenage years. For me Dorothy Parker is the eternal teenager; rebellious, outspoken, witty and saying all the things I wish I'd had the presence of mind to say when I was a teenager. But this book introduced me to a different side of the lady, and her skill with words in the pieces she chose not to publish along with her collected works. This was a revelation and a thoroughly enjoyable read, both as a collection of verse and a window on her world.
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