Quirky Collections

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A list of quirky, humorous, and unusual poetry collections. Provided by the staff at the West University Branch Library .

American Wits: an Anthology of Light Verse - Edited by John Hollander
Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse--a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The Devil's Dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill.
The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it ... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the words behind her strong belief in the power of literature.
The Body Eclectic: an Anthology of Poems - Edited by Patrice Vecchione.
An experienced anthologist and teacher has put together an immensely powerful group of poems, all of which address a unifying theme of major interest to teens--the body.
A Book of Luminous Things: an International Anthology of Poetry - Edited and with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz.
Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz has selected 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages, poems memorable for how they render the realities of the world palpable and immediate.
 
Humor Me: an Anthology of Humor by Writers of Color - Edited by John McNally
The first anthology of its kind, Humor Me is a celebration of humor by authors from diverse cultures.
I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You: a Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs - Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczko
A collection of poems , by male and female authors, presented in pairings that offer insight into how men and women look at the world, both separately and together.
 
Invited Guest: an Anthology of Twentieth-Century Southern Poetry - Edited by David Rigsbee and Steven Ford Brown
Along with a respectful acknowledgement of the contributions of the most popular figures in southern poetry, Rigsbee and Brown offer long-overdue attention to underrecognized poets. The juxtaposition of the canonical and the little-known makes Invited Guest an intriguing illustration of the abundance and range of poetry in the twentieth-century South.
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness - Chosen and introduced by Robert Bly
101 Poems That Could Save Your Life: an Anthology of Emotional First Aid - Edited by Daisy Goodwin
With works by Dorothy Parker, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, William Blake, Lucretius, and Thom Gunn, this collection of poetry is an anthology of emotional first aid.
Poetry After 9/11: an Anthology of New York Poets - Edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians
This collection features the work of some of New York's preeminent poets at a pivotal moment in America's history-one year after the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks. The poems, including many that have never been published before, cover an extraordinary variety of responses to the experience of writing and living in the aftermath of September 11.
Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast: 120 Poems from the Subways and Buses - Edited by Elise Paschen and Brett Fletcher Lauer
Featuring a Preface by William Louis-Dreyfus, this work is an all-new worthy successor to the immensely popular anthology of display placards in public transportation.
 
 
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation - Edited by Roger Housden
Ten Poems to Set You Free - Edited by Roger Housden
The third book in the successful Ten Poems series features poems that lead readers to live life to the fullest by giving them the freedom to claim the life that is truly theirs.
To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual and Metaphysical Light - Translations by Willis Barnstone
Contains Willis Barstone's translations of some of the most inspiring writing of world literature: ten mystical and spiritual poets spanning three thousand years. It includes poems from the Song of Songs, Sappho, Herakleitos, Wang Wei, Mirabai, Rilke, and more.