New Releases by Ogden Nash

Poem about an obnoxiously disbelieving child who inspires Santa''s ire.

"Nash belongs to none of the 20th century''s poetic movements though he borrowed from all of them. He published his first collection during the height of High Modernism and his last in the early 70s with the Language poets and Second New York School bubbling around him. ''The Private Dining Room'' pops and fizzes on the level of sound poetry, both a sendup to the form and to 1950s propriety and etiquette guides."--Ondioline website.

The collection consists of one poem, written by Ogden Nash on Altamont Hotel, Hazleton, Pa., letterhead, 1 May 1953, a single couplet finding a creative rhyme for Goedecke; Karl Goedecke was a bookseller in Hazleton.

Poems in this book are drawn, with revisions, from ten previous books.

"Who would be so rashery To rhyme on ogdonnashery, (Which is a climate Most sublimate For verses awfully dashery)? On themes quite indefatigable His latest book''s compatible -- No stone unturned -- No turn unstoned -- On questions burned On facts unknowned. You''ll turn this Nash Right into cash."--Kirkus Reviews.

"Mr. Nash has chosen from his five earlier collections of verse those that he wanted available for the growing public. He has added 31 poems found only in the volume of selected verse, The Face Is Familiar, Uniform with Good Intentions and I''m a Stranger Here Myself.'' Kirkus Reviews.

Verse.

Essays and articles, including some first printed in Saturday Evening Post, by Morley, Throckmorton, and Nash about the reopening of the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, NJ. The book ends with reprints of Morley''s exceedingly tongue-in-cheek newspaper ads to entice jaded Broadway patrons of 1928/29 to sail away to Hoboken to experience 19th century melodramas.