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Article: The limerick reclaimed; An art form rescued from its sordid past.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2006
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Let's face it. For many people the limerick signifies a naughty little construct. Often salted with dirty words and an attitude to match ("There once was a man from Nantucket ..."), the limerick lives in most imaginations as the drunken uncle of polite word play.
With the publication of Ernest W. Lefever's insightful and entertaining collection "Liberating the Limerick," all that, as they say, is about to change. As Mr. Lefever writes in the book's introduction, "This collection of 230 verses by fifty authors, past and present, demonstrates that limericks can be wise, hilarious, and often sexy without being ...