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| | Amazon.de: Rezensionen English Books: Feg: Ridiculous Poems for Intelligent Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) |
 | | In an arch, sophisticated display of literary agility, Hirsch (Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski) offers a silly array of poems for youthful (and not so youthful) philologists and word sleuths. |
 | | From palindromes and spoonerisms ("Dr. Spooner Writes the Menu" serves up such treats as "a chilled grease sandwich" and "brightly leaded chalk pops") to alliteration, haiku, onomatopoeia and more, he commits flagrantly nimble wordplay, tongue firmly planted in cheek. |
 | | In his General Noncritical Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral Introduction, Hirsch (an author, performer, and producer, who also runs a restaurant) writes, "these poems are all the result of fooling around." The foolers are Hirsch and his two young sons, and, clearly, they've had a field day playing with words. |
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