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Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem - Schechter, Harold (Editor), and Brown, Kurt (Editor)
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In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men. Browning, Hardy, Auden, Mark Doty, Thom Gunn, Simon Armitage and Stevie Smith are only a few of the wide range of poets, old and new, whose comic, chilling and occasionally profound poetic musings on murder are gathered in this ...

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Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem 2011, Everyman's Library, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780307700933

Hardcover

Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem 2011, Everyman's Library, London

ISBN-13: 9781841597904

Hardcover