Threnody -- The small hours -- The false friends -- The trifler -- A very short song -- A well-worn story -- Convalescent -- The dark girl's rhyme -- Epitaph -- Light of love -- Wail -- The satin dress -- Somebody's song -- Anecdote -- Braggart -- Epitaph for a darling lady -- To a much too unfortunate lady -- Paths -- Hearthside -- The new love -- Rainy night -- For a sad lady -- Recurrence -- Story of Mrs. W -- The dramatists -- August -- The white lady -- I know I Have been happiest -- Testament -- "I shall come back" -- Condolence -- The immortals -- A portrait -- Portrait of an artist -- Chant for dark hours -- Unfortunate coincidence -- Verse reporting late arrival at a conclusion -- Inventory -- Now at liberty -- Comment -- Plea -- Pattern -- De profundis -- They part -- Ballade of a great weariness -- Résumé -- Renunciation -- Day-dreams -- The veteran -- Prophetic soul -- Verse for a certain dog -- Folk tune -- Godspeed -- Song of perfect propriety -- Social note -- One perfect rose -- Ballade at thirty-five -- The thin edge -- Spring song -- Love song -- Indian summer -- Philosophy -- For an unknown lady -- The leal -- Finis -- Words of comfort to be scratched on a mirror -- Men -- News item -- Song of one of the girls -- Lullaby -- Faut de mieux -- Roundel -- A certain lady -- Observation -- Symptom recital -- Fighting words -- Rondeau redoublé -- Autobiography -- The choice -- Ballade of big plans -- General review of the sex situation -- Ubscription for the ceilign of a bedroom -- Pictures in the smoke -- Biographies -- Nocturne -- Interview -- Song in a minor key -- Experience -- Neither bloody nor bowed -- The burned child.
Summary:
"Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age's most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental cliches about relations between men and women."
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