num_pages: 64
description: Full of enchanting humor and intimacy, this inventive collection of poems is designed to engage and delight. Rhymed metrical forms are masterfully handled to produce highly amusing effects and traditional prose is manipulated in order to handle contemporary subjects. Moving yet lighthearted, these poems are a complicated brew that poetry lovers of every stripe will enjoy.
language: English
title: Pessimism for Beginners
titlecomplete: Pessimism for Beginners
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 97
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.