In a Pig's Eye (Contemporary Poetry Series)

By Robert Siegel

Book by Siegel, Robert This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813008409
• ISBN13: 9780813008400
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

A fun book from a first-rate poet.

Poetry these days is rarely, if ever, funny. Robert Siegel, though, had the courage to write a book of poems about, of all things, pigs. Not only is this funny poetry, it's just plain funny reading. I was fortunate enough to be in a creative writing class where selections from Siegel's book were read. It had us all laughing hysterically. I was then even more fortunate to attend a stodgy coffee hour at which Siegel himself read poems that even the most serious reader couldn't stop and subject to close scrutiny without laughing. This is a book for anyone who has been turned off by overly pretentious poetry, but also for those of us who just have a sense of humor.