Just So You Know by Conti, Edmund

Just So You Know (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781947465893)

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Just So You Know by Conti, Edmund

Just So You Know

$14.00
Just So You Know by Conti, Edmund

Just So You Know

$14.00
Format: Paperback
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Edmund Conti's Just So You Know is a joy from first line to last. Ordinary life is often raised to the level of high comedy (sleeplessly turning and tossing while listening to noises from the refrigerator), but at times Conti deals with the extraordinary (as when he transcribes an e-mail from God). A master of a dazzling variety of forms---ingenious stanzas, haiku, parody, verse epigrams, even free verse---Conti rewards and regales To be genuinely funny in free verse is no mean feat. In one memorable tour de force, stray lines from Shakespeare are stitched together into a coherent new poem. I salute this long overdue collection by one of our most highly skilled living poets. It's pure enjoyment. Buy a copy for yourself and a dozen to give away.

X. J. Kennedy

If you need a chuckle or twenty (and who doesn't, these days?) buy this book. Edmund Conti is best known for writing short, funny poems in rhyme and meter. But as Just So You Know proves, he can write long and funny too. Sometimes he rhymes virtuosically (apparatus/pat us; gem/apothegm) and at others he opts for breezy light verse. What's constant, though, is Conti's Imagination, his fun with language, and his puckish, addictive, no-way-you-can-frown-through-it wit.

Melissa Balmain

Author: Edmund Conti
ISBN-10: 1947465899
ISBN-13: 9781947465893
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2018
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d

By Edmund Conti
By Edmund Conti
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Edmund Conti has had the usual 500 or so poems published in the usual places (assuming Poetry and The New Yorker are not the usual places). He started off writing light verse and stopped, not because he became world-weary, but editor-weary, editors who were quick to say "if it rhymes we don't want it." So Edmund reverted to free verse, free in his case being the freedom to rhyme when he chose to and scan when it pleased him.

Conti won the Willard Espy Prize for Light Verse in 2001 and can't seem to forget that. He is still spending the thousand dollars that came with it. He also won the more forgettable Ruby Muse prize ($15). He has recent acceptances from Light, Lighten-up Online, Asses of Parnassus, new verse news, Rotary Dial and Verse-Virtual. He also invented a word game, "Bananagrams" (anagrams to drive you bananas) that ran for a while in Word Ways and Games Magazine.

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