Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash

by Ogden Nash

Book Overview

Gathers poems on a variety of subjects including love, marriage, parenthood, modern life, animals, aging, travel, work, and food. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884822304
• ISBN13: 9781884822308
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Dangerous Little Ditties

If you like this book, and the sweetly subversive worlds of George Booth, Ogden Nash or Shel Silverstein, then you should pick up Nick Bantock's (of Gryphon & Sabine fame), "Averse to Beasts," a book with cassette whose dangerous little ditties rival Nash's in their hilarity with a dose of arsenic.

Terse Verse

Don't trash Ogden Nash. His words ain't turds His swirls Are pearls.

You'll Never Buy a More Delightful, Humorous Book

After an especially hideous day at work--11 hours of constant pressure--I stopped by a bookstore on the way to the Washington Metro (subway) last night and bought this book. Talk about "Comic Relief!" I pored over the book in the Metro for my entire 45-minute ride and found myself captivated by some of the greatest humor of all time. This is indeed a book that is laugh-out-loud funny. Nash's odes to the perils of everyday existence as well as his clever but succinct characterizations of everything from exotic animals to unusual people--and his occasionally tortured but still delightful rhymes--are certainly unique. No other poet or humorist even comes close. Those of you who are Nash fans will find many favorites in the volume, and some enjoyable obscure surprises, too. Some of Nash's references are a bit dated, especially those related to once-famous people--and the book would have benefited from some annotation to explain the references. But most of the humor is impressively timeless. The book also needs an index, which it completely lacks--neither titles nor first lines. But forget those minor deficiencies and buy the book!! You WON'T regret it. I plan to keep it handy for a welcome laugh when I need one, and look forward to dipping into it often in the future.

The best of his work...

Don't let the lack of an index dissuade you from buying this book. If you love the tongue twisting, funny work of this great humorist poet, this book is for you. You will read it cover to cover, then you will read it again, aloud.

this was humerously wonderful--well worth any money spent

the humer in this one was definately a collection of Nash's greatest. it's no fun reading them to yourself--throw an Ogden Nash party (besides laughing at Nash's great poems, you'll have a blast laughing at the people trying to say them up to tempo--without stumbling over words or cracking themselves up.)