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Current selection for Poetry Talk discussion group - Funny by Jennifer Michael Hecht

Publication Details
ISBN: 0299214044
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: November 2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 100

Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins

A tour de force, Funny is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell and tells marvelous stories.

Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian who has published several scholarly volumes and one previous collection of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Web site: http://www.jennifermichaelhecht.com/

Excerpts

Story of My Life

Reviews

The Beliver

Publishers Weekly

"Funny leaves no doubt that humor has finally reclaimed its legitimate place in American poetry. Playing off a catalogue of jokes which we all recognize, as well as serious theories about the comic, Jennifer Michael Hecht has produced a collection like no other. Her poems are delights, transparently readable yet carefully crafted, precisely poised.”
- Billy Collins

Other Sources

Wikipedia Biography

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