250 RECENT (AND OVERLY DECENT?) LIMERICKS

About the Book

250 Recent (And Overly Decent?) Limericks is an evidently protracted attempt. The attempt is toward something like formal excellence. The form-in-question is (let's say) valid English, whereas the limerick form remains merely adventitious.

Here beneath are a couple of sample limericks-and don't they manage to sweep along somewhat ridiculously?

HELLO
Hello and good-bye, little world
of seeming to stay boyed and girled
in manners and fashions
whose finite new passions
invite each ripe dream to seem swirled.

GUITARS
Guitars were restrumming themselves
while waiting for happier shelves
than visit the deadly
new forms of a medley
created by sleigh-bells and elves.

A truly sincere and very profound hope might be that the entire collection could be savorable as individuations and as an aggregate.

About the Author

Bruce Hamilton, a rather solitary Californian, attended Yale College for two years. He assiduously has devoted most of his literary practicing to such basic pieces as limericks and sonnets. His recent ?literary hero? was and still is Jorge Luis Borges, toward whose pessimisms about language and literature he remains sympathetic.