Verses That Hurt
Subtitle: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets
Contributors: Jordan Trachtenberg (Editor); Amy Trachtenberg (Editor); Christian Lantry (Photographer)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: March 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312151911
Subjects: Poetry anthologies: from c 1900 -; American Contemporary Poetry (Anthologies); English; Poetry; USA; American - General; Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / General; 20th century; American poetry; New York; New York (State); New York Metropolitan Area
First sentence: Here is my personal message to all of you careerist, slime bucket, fame seeking, sychophantic, weakworded, same voiced, gladhanding, asskissing, backstabbing, envying, self serving assholes who are littering the downtown scene in ever increasing numbers while you choke the creativity out of yourselves as you turnoff thousands of potential power of the word lovers by the oxygen you use up on the performing stages of New York City while you make your dullwitted stab toward your myopic fantasy of love, admiration, approval, sex and immortality which you think your 10 minutes of standing in front of a crowd that has long stopped listening to you will confer on your sorry asses.