Enough rope: poems
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About This Book
Daring, devastating, and dazzlingly smart, “Enough Rope” is Dorothy Parker at her most unforgettable. In these celebrated poems, Parker wields her wit like a rapier, unmasking the follies of love, glamour, and modern society with equal parts mischief and melancholy. From cutting quips to quiet confessions, the collection explores heartbreak and hope with honesty so sharp it makes you laugh even as it stings—sometimes in the very same breath. Parker’s voice lingers long after the poem beguiling, world-weary, yet always brimming with life.But there’s a pulse of rebellion in every line—a knowledg...
Chapters (97)
- ENOUGH ROPE
- Poems by
- DOROTHY PARKER
- BONI & LIVERIGHT
- CONTENTS
- PART ONE
- 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
- PART TWO
- Portrait of the 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 (in the expected manner)
- 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 (and scarcely worth the trouble, at that)
- Autobiography
- The Choice
- Ballade of Big Plans
- General Review of the Sex Situation
- Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom
- Pictures in the Smoke
- Biographies
- Nocturne
- Interview
- Song in a Minor Key
- Experience
- Neither Bloody Nor Bowed
- The Burned Child
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