The Private Dining Room And Other New Verses
by Ogden Nash
Category: American poetry

"Nash belongs to none of the 20th century's poetic movements though he borrowed from all of them. He published his first collection during the height of High Modernism and his last in the early 70s with the Language poets and Second New York School bubbling around him. 'The Private Dining Room' pops and fizzes on the level of sound poetry, both a sendup to the form and to 1950s propriety and etiquette guides."--Ondioline website.