Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse

Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse

by JohnWhitworth (Editor)

Synopsis

This text presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, James Fenton, Kit Wright, Craig Raine and Wendy Cope. Dealing with the bawdy, this book offers emotional, intellectual, confessional, and satirical tributes to sex.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 0571228275
ISBN 13: 9780571228270

Author Bio
John Whitworth was born in 1945. He was educated at Edinburgh and at Oxford. He has taught English, writes for literary magazines and newspapers and has published four volumes of poetry. His latest collection, The Whitworth Gun, was published by Peterloo Poets in 2002.