BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Does the Bush Administration sound... read full description
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Dec 21, 2007
Tracey
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I wouldn't normally pick up something like this, but I'd just heard one of Mr. Trillin's poems on NPR and the book caught my eye on the Hot Picks shelf at the library.
This slim volume is a collection of humorous poems on the Bush administration, starting with the campaigns and election in 2000 and concluding with poems from earlier this year that deal with the situation in Iraq. Trillin throws in an occasional sea chanty, or parody of traditional folk songs (tho nothing along the li More...
This slim volume is a collection of humorous poems on the Bush administration, starting with the campaigns and election in 2000 and concluding with poems from earlier this year that deal with the situation in Iraq. Trillin throws in an occasional sea chanty, or parody of traditional folk songs (tho nothing along the li More...
Aug 12, 2010
Runa
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I was really excited to read this book. The concept sounded original and hilarious, and I was so sure I'd have a good time reading it. While reading, I found out that the poems were originally broadcast on a weekly radio show. This was a great idea. I would have much rather heard the poems in context with the world's events, rather than randomly combined in one book. I can understand someone wanting to read this after having heard the poems on the show, but other than that, this is definite
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Sep 14, 2010
Kristina
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Excellent political humor in poetry form. I've always enjoyed Trillin's poems in the New Yorker, now I've got a whole book of them!
Sep 24, 2007
Pam
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This was LOL, or would have been if the fool he is talking about was not the president of the United States!! That makes it embarrassing and troubling.
Nov 26, 2007
Guillermo
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things i learned
OUR PRESIDENT IS A FUCKING MORON!!!!
oh wait, I didn't learn that....i already knew it.
OUR PRESIDENT IS A FUCKING MORON!!!!
oh wait, I didn't learn that....i already knew it.
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