Pitiless Parodies and Other Outrageous Verse

by Frank Jacobs

Book Overview

Superb send-ups of classic poetry and the contemporary scene by the zany humorist, including some reprinted from "Mad Magazine." Includes skewered versions of "Kubla Khan," "Oh, Captain, My Captain,"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486281264
• ISBN13: 9780486281261
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun parodies... an amusing afternoon read

It opens up with a fun variation of "Old Father WIlliam"(from Alice in Wonderland) and later revisits it again with "You are Old Henry Aaron" which although I'm not a sports fan... was very funny! My favorites were the Mother Goose Meets the environment and Mother Goose around the world. There is a poem dediacted to Shwarzenegger which was obviously written before he was governor.. I'd like to see the last stanza on THAT revised edition! LOL. Categories/Chapters include: Great Poems Updated, Celebrities and Such, Zoo's Who, The Sports Page, Baseball Types, A Rhyming Guide to Pro Football, Mother Goose Meets the Environment, Down the Chimney with Clement Clarke Moore, Refeathering "The Raven", Seasoned to Taste, The Immortal Casey, The Poetry Round-Robin Roundelay (Poems as might have been written by OTHER poets!) Mother Goose Around the World, Poets for Hire (ie... "Henry Wasdsworth Longfellow as a Used Car Dealer" & "Walt Whitman as a Mafia Don"),and finally, Keep the Motor Running. If your sense of humor leans towards the sarcastic and is slightly bookish... you may well enjoy this. I am not a sports fan, so I skipped over most of those sections. Some are a little dated (The Saga of At & T), but that didn't detract much from the timeless parodies.