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Death of the Poets, Thirty Polite Things to Say, and Dog Truths (Gift Set)
Illustrated by Joseph W. Reed
Sales Date: 2019-05-29
78 Pages, 4.00 x 6.00 in
Death of a Poet is rhyming couplets meet etched illustrations in this whimsically dark chapbook about poets and their deaths.
In hyperbolic fashion, the preface to Thirty Polite Things to Say reads, "There are times in the lives of us all in which we are at a loss for words. This volume attempts a partial solution." What follows are thirty things perhaps we shouldn't say, but find ourselves saying anyway. The book is pointedly funny.
Dog Truths includes absurd graphs, charts, and diagrams that tell the truth about dogs—their size, attitude, and likeability is laid bare for all to read and enjoy.
Kit Reed (June 7, 1932 – September 24, 2017) was an American author of speculative and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig. Her novels include Mormama, The Baby Merchant, Son of Destruction and Thinner Than Thou which won an ALA Alex Award. Often anthologized, her short stories have been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Tiptree Awards. A Guggenheim fellow and an early recipient of a literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation, Reed was a resident writer at Wesleyan University.
Joseph W. Reed is professor emeritus of film and American studies at Wesleyan University, where he became interested in printmaking and painting in the 1970s. Experimenting with these mediums, he produced a body of work characterized by its sobriety and painstaking attention to historical detail. Thematic series include Chief Executives Underwater, First Ladies in Space and The History of Western Ant. Books include "Three American Originals: John Ford, William Faulkner, and Charles Ives" and "American Scenarios: The Uses of Film Genre.
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