Collected poems
Subtitle: 1944-1979
By: Kingsley Amis ; introduction by Clive James
Contributors: James, Clive
Series: New York Review Books Poets; New York Review Books poets
Publisher: NYRB Poets
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781590178669
Subjects: English poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Kingsley Amis's poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful songs of love and loss that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. Amis writes: "Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, Whose touch will burn, but I'm asbestos, see?" We know he is anything but"--