Richard Armour's Punctured Poems

by Richard Armour

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912800550
• ISBN13: 9780912800554
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Woodbridge Press Publishing Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Laugh with him for years

I have laughed at Richard Armour's humor since I met him in 1956. He used to come into our newspaper office to meet with my boss. Richard makes light of happenings and people without being off-color or disrespectful. I always have a good laugh.

Very funny and original

Even though most of us do not read poetry, there are many famous lines that we have heard and remember. While most often the line will be an opening one, that is not necessarily the case. In this book, the author has taken a famous line from a poem and then added a contemporary, humorous subsequent line. Examples are:From "Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope"To err is human, to forgive divine."Followed by"Some errors I forgive, though quickly. . . . Mine."From "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Water, water, everywhere;"Followed by"The plumbing badly needs repair."From "Marmion" by Sir Walter Scott"Oh, what a tangled web we weave!"Followed by"The webs to spiders we should leave."The "poems" are very funny, the wit demonstrated by the author is truly impressive. Each poem is also accompanied by an illustration, which makes it even funnier. I enjoyed reading this book and I am sure you will as well.

Armour does it again!

I'm big into poetry and Richard Armour books. My dad found this book and brought it home and I read it cover to cover at one sitting. Boy was it funny. And now I can't hear the line "Water water everywhere" without thinking of Armour's second line - "the plumbing badly needs repair"!