YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE an English major to enjoy this book. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry, collected parodies of poetry by Chaucer to E.B. White, is structured to parallel the famed Norton Anthology. Covering some 700 years of verse, the Brand-X Anthology, edited by William Zaranka, makes for both dignified sport and amusing diversions:
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying--
Lady make note of this:
One of you is Iying.
Erudition oozes from every page. Mostly light in tone, the poems vary from the lewd and bawdy to the obscure and sanctimonious. Those with a wide knowledge of poetry will, no doubt, chuckle wryly at e.e. cummings send-ups:
the rider
is fat
as that( )
or wider( )
in torso
or course
the horse
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