Book of Donmon Teith

For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humour encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience and subject.

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communitie

Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, an

Seven chronologically arranged essays--each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988--plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introd