Shut Up You're Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children

Hudgins, Andrew; Moser, Barry

ISBN 10: 1590201035 / ISBN 13: 9781590201039

Published by The Overlook Press (edition 1), 2009

About this Item

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 1590201035-11-1-29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shut Up You're Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children
• Publisher: The Overlook Press (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590201035
• ISBN 13: 9781590201039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

Andrew Hudgins, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-nominated author of the critically acclaimed Ecstatic in the Poison, brings us this new collection of laugh-out-loud tongue-in-cheek nursery rhymes that do for poetry what Edward Gorey did for cartooning. Illustrated by the distinguished artist and graphic designer Barry Moser, Shut Up, You're Fine! includes such heart-warming titles as "Playing Houth," "The Thumping of the Bed," "Two Starving Kids in Africa," and "Daddy, Are We Meat?

About the Author

Andrew Hudgins's previous poetry collections include Ecstatic in the Poison and Saints & Strangers, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; After the Lost War, which received the Poetry Prize; and The Never-Ending, a finalist for the National Book Award.

Barry Moser is a renowned artist, printmaker, and illustrator of many literary works, including Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He won the American Book Award for design and illustration in 1982 and currently teaches at Smith College and the Rhode Island School of Design.