Nuper Verba

by Kent Johnson

"The writings of Kent Johnson over the years have given us an outsized sense of disquiet and mockery, as he revives and transforms the ancient art of satire, bringing it laughing and raging into a new century and millennium. The great pleasure in Nuper Verba is, then, the comic fury he gives to poems that aim at the literary present, while aware of a range of poets and literary pretenders from ancient Rome to contemporary USAmerica and elsewhere...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848618573
• ISBN13: 9781848618572
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"