Cover of Shut Up You're Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children

Shut Up You're Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children

Andrew Hudgins, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-nominated author of the critically acclaimed Ecstatic in the Poison, brings us this new collection of laugh-out-loud tongue-in-cheek nursery rhymes that do for poetry what Edward Gorey did for cartooning. Illustrated by the distinguished artist and graphic designer Barry Moser, Shut Up, You're Fine! includes such heart-warming titles as "Playing Houth," "The Thumping of the Bed," "Two Starving Kids in Africa," and "Daddy, Are We Meat?

Audience
young adultadult
Length
short · 144 pages

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