Poetry

Peeping Tom's Cabin

Peeping Tom's Cabin is a collection of light verse for adults composed by acclaimed poet, anthologist, and editor, X.J. Kennedy. An uncompromising formalist, Kennedy uses a broad range of long-standing poetic forms to both honor and skewer all classes of citizen, regardless of their revered place in society. Parents, lovers, lover-wannabes, poetry critics, students, and especially notable literary figures, receive Kennedy's astute comic attention. This collection of light verse includes many poems previously published in journals, but until now have never been collected in a single book. "Widely regarded, and occasionally disregarded, as a practitioner of light verse . . . [X.J. Kennedy] serves his light with a healthy dose of darkness; his best work is a tug of war between levity and gravity." - Eric McHenry, New York Times Book Review

Famous Poems Abbreviated (excerpt)

1
Of Man's first disobedience and its fruit
Scripture has told. No need to follow suit.

2
Once upon a midnight dreary
Blue and lonesome, missed my dearie.
Would I find her? Any hope?
Quoth the raven six times, "Nope."

3
Whoosh! --hear the Sea of Faith's withdrawing roar?
So, baby, let's make love tonight, not war.

© BOA Editions, Ltd 2007

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Cloth ISBN: 978-1-929918-95-9
Price: $22.00
Publishing Date: September 2007
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-929918-96-6
Price: $17.00
Publishing Date: September 2007

FormatPaperback , Hardcover

Publication DateSeptember 1, 2001

ISBN978-1-929918-96-6

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About the Author

X. J. Kennedy has published six collections of verse: the earliest is Nude Descending a Staircase for which he received the Lamont Award from The Academy of American Poets; the latest, The Lords of Misrule, was awarded the Poets’ Prize in 2004. Kennedy has also authored eighteen children's books and several textbooks on poetry and fiction. Other recognitions include the Los Angeles Book Award for Poetry, the Aiken-Taylor Award, and Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships. Kennedy was given the first Michael Braude Award for light verse by the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters. Kennedy, along with his wife, Dorothy, and scholar Jane E. Aaron, is the editor of The Bedford Reader, a collegiate literary textbook also used for teaching the AP English Language and Composition test. He currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. For more information about X.J. Kennedy, visit xjanddorothymkennedy.com