I LIKE YOUR SHIRT (**Etc.**)

Quatrains, Threesomes, & Couplets

by Bruce Howard Hamilton


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Softcover
$14.95

Book Details

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Publication Date : 7/7/2009

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 144
ISBN : 9781440154287

About the Book

I LIKE YOUR SHIRT (**Etc.**) is a compilation of 260 samples of highly rhymed iambic-pentameter versifications -- quatrains, threesomes, and couplets written so that each item might seem to be "one sweeping sentence." The roller-coaster-like strangeness of the entire collection may be starkly implied by its paradigmatic title, which promises a kind of barrage in terms of essential formulaics. A very definite attempt was made to push the individual pieces toward much grammatical correctness, so the ultimate effects might seem nearly lapidary even if never absolutely sleek or slick. Much worthwhile entertainment may be had in terms of noticing how at least some of the attempted English, despite multiple egregious enjambment, is handled and rehandled.


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.