Levities: Witticisms and Absurdities in Verse

This hilarious and perplexing volume, written by a rhyme-loving poet and linguistics scholar, is a collection of humorous and light poetry. It is part of the author's Levities and Gravities project. The Levities and Gravities project aims to demonstrate the power of attention to linguistic form in poetry and to highlight the fact that poetry can feed any emotion, not just the heavy ones. This volume contains "levities," or humorous or light poems, but the associated gravities series presents serious poems. This second edition contains additional poems not included in the first edition, new author's notes, and an essay on the possibilities available in poetry.