Fumes of Formation

ISBN-13: 9781522772798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 82 str.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

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Amanda McKittrick Ros was an Irish writer who had an excessively high opinion of her worth and value to literature. She became famous as a writer who was so astonishingly bad that her work can actually be considered very good. Many literary figures have admired and enjoyed her work.

Published in 1933, Fumes of Formation is Amanda McKittrick Ros' final completed book. It is a masterwork of wonderfully terrible poetry:

"This inventive production was hatched within a mind fringed with Fumes of Formation, the Ingenious Innings of Inspiration and Thorny Tincture of Thought."

Fumes of Formation, the second book of poetry by the late, great Amanda McKittrick Ros, contains, among many equally astonishing poems, her most famous: "On Visiting Westminster Abbey" This is the first sentence:

Holy Moses Have a look

Flesh decayed in every nook

Some rare bits of brain lie here,

Mortal loads of beef and beer,

Some of whom are turned to dust,

Every one bids lost to lust;

Royal flesh so tinged with 'blue'

Undergoes the same as you.

Like all of Amanda's books this book was self published and only 160 copies were known to have been bound and sold into circulation, meaning that until now Fumes of Formation has been extremely scarce and very expensive.

However, The Amanda McKittrick Ros Society has painstakingly and faithfully reproduced Fumes of Formation (with a high spirited new cover) in both softcover and ebook formats, meaning you can now inexpensively add this timeless tome to your collection and enjoy the incredible masterpiece of deliciously laughable poetry by yourself and with confidants.