Levities: Witticisms and Absurdities in Verse, Second Edition

They say poetry doesn't have to rhyme - but it can. And it can do a lot more, as well. Shaped by the author's love of patterns, informed by his expertise in linguistics, and built on his offbeat sense of humor, this volume is a collection of humorous formal poems. Hilarious and perplexing, the poems in this collection showcase the power of meter, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, dialect combination, and other methods of form manipulation to help the world laugh at its own absurdity.

This volu...