Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse

Title: Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse Author: Dorothy Parker ISBN: 9780593466353 Publisher: Vintage Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Poetry 1544332 Publisher Description: Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about relations between men and women. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. The poems in Enough Rope range from lighthearted self-deprecation