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Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker | Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker, master of the short story, dramatist, screenwriter, and sharp-tongued critic, was also an accomplished poet. At the center of the famed Round Table at New York's Algonquin Hotel, Parker distinguished herself among a circle of urbane literati with her excoriating quips and wonderfully realized epigrammatic poems. By the time her first collection of poems, Enough Rope, was published in 1926, she had been dubbed the "wittiest woman in America".Confronting the hard facts of existence facing a woman of talent and boldness in the 1920s and '30s, Parker's poems depict a world haunted by unrequited love, alcohol, razor blades, and men of overbearing will. Her poetry earned the admiration of critics such as Odgen Nash, Somerset Maugham, and Edmund Wilson, who hailed it as "flatly brutal as the wit of the age of Pope". Complete Poems collects Parker's three volumes of poetry, Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, and Death and Taxes, as well as a hundred other previously uncollected works -- such as the "hate songs", compact satiric descriptions of husbands and wives, actors and politicians, bores and ne'er-do-wells, and others who attracted her barbed pen.
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IndoorDame
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Another of the many rereads I started months ago and have been reading on and off ever since. She and her work have always spoken to me, but I don‘t know if I‘ve ever identified with her personally through her poems quite as deeply as I do at this particular moment in my life. Then again, maybe with the really great writers you feel that all over again each time you read them.

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 4mo
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TheSpineView ❤️❤️❤️ 4mo
dabbe 🧡🩶🧡 4mo
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IndoorDame
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#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

I can‘t listen to music while I read. My ADD brain just isn‘t up to the challenge. But that doesn‘t mean my reading doesn‘t influence my listening choices. Hardly a week goes by when I‘m not inspired by what I‘m reading to seek out a new band, a playlist, or an old favorite.

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IndoorDame This week I looked up the title of a Dorothy Parker poem: Liebestod, only to find out it‘s a Wagner piece. I don‘t know much about classical music, but I tend to enjoy Wagner so I see myself listening to more of his work in the weeks to come.

Isolde's Liebestod
Wagner, Polish National Radio Symphony

https://open.spotify.com/track/5E8Jb4TAPuNeNinma3Ntk8?si=zFyU1DR_Q3Ofan3EkGqHEw&...
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lil1inblue I love this! 😍 4mo
Cuilin Fabulous, I like his Opera‘s 4mo
TieDyeDude Good stuff. Thanks for sharing! 4mo
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psalva This is a fun one! 4mo
CBee “A mild and most bewildered little shade” - I love this ♥️ (edited) 4mo
IndoorDame @CBee it‘s one of my favorites of her poems! 4mo
CBee @IndoorDame it‘s beautiful! 4mo
dabbe So lovely to read the entire passage out loud, too! 🩶🖤🩶 4mo
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TheSpineView Wow! That last line! 5mo
IndoorDame @TheSpineView that‘s why I love her! She never pulls her punches 5mo
lil1inblue #greatminds I just love this poem. 😍 5mo
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IndoorDame @lil1inblue ♥️👯♥️ 5mo
dabbe Wowza! 🩶🖤🩶 5mo
IndoorDame @dabbe ♥️❤️♥️ 5mo
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TheSpineView 😍😍😍 3y
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TK-421
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Inventory:

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

#champagne #QuotsyAug20

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GripLitGrl @olivia.ferz 😀💕 6y
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Cathythoughts Beautiful verse & picture ... the stars ⭐️ 6y
Lcsmcat ❤️ Dorothy Parker! 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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MayJasper So ☹️ 6y
LazyDays How sad. But good.💔💗 6y
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merelybookish
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Yesterday was Dorothy Parker's birthday. So here's to her and her famous acerbic wit! 🍸🥂🥃
No #connection to today's #poetrymatters prompt. My apologies @LazyDays 🙂

Tanisha_A I still like what you did there! 😄 6y
LazyDays I still love it!💜👏 6y
batsy Happy birthday, Dorothy 💕 6y
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Sing it, sister. ❤️

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TK-421
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Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my #brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.

I haven't read any Dorothy Parker yet, but the more quotes I see, the more I realize I really want to read her work. #QuotsyJan18

tjwill I love Dorothy Parker! Now I need to find my 7y
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GoneFishing
Complete Poems | Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.

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GoneFishing
Complete Poems | Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade

In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.

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GoneFishing
Complete Poems | Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

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OrangeMooseReads
Complete Poems | Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade
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#litsypoetry365
I like the "why the hell not" attitude of this poem. It encompasses the "better to love and lost, than to never have loved at all" idea.

Joybishoptx I've never read anything by her I didn't like. She's brilliant. 8y
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OrangeMooseReads
Complete Poems | Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade
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I haven't been keeping up with the picture a day this month mostly because I haven't had the items for photographing and posting. I do have a few for today's #poetry #seasonsreadings