Dorothy Parker Complete Poems Released Again
The Portable Dorothy Parker was the only book of Mrs. Parker’s work in print when she died in 1967. Today readers can practically put together an entire bookshelf of work by and about Mrs. Parker. To add to this Parker Pantheon is a new book from Penguin Classics that collects almost all of her poems—both the greatest hits and the ones that should have remained on the speakeasy floor.Complete Poems has a checkered past (more on that later) but it should be greeted with hearty applause by all fans of Mrs. Parker’s work. This is the only book that attempts to collect all of her output, from gems such as “Résumé” and “Social Note” to the decidedly less important and mediocre, including “The Bridge Fiend” and “To Elspeth.” Readers can now see the good and the bad between the same covers.
Read the full report on the new book here.
Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 10:50 PM | Permalink | Comments 
