Many on this list would disagree but I think when it comes to defining
'hilarious' - I think Pam Ayres should go into this list. As one postee has
phrased the words (& I'm going to use them here), poems to my mind are not
just 'hollow vessels.' Humour is part of that emotional stream that many a
good writer attempts, as this growing list - 'women's hilarious poems'
attests. Pam Ayres tickles my funny bone, just for the pure enjoyment esp.
her poem - 'The Hair Curlers Poem.' She has irony and wit. She is also a
very funny commedienne, like Bill Cosby, Spike Milligan. On searching for
her poems on the web, for my poetry class on humour it was interesting to
note that in 1998 in a UK's favourite top ten comic poems, apart from Spike
Milligan's poem (1st) - On the Ning Nang Nong, Pam Ayres was Number 10.
with 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth.'
Oh I wish I could find that poem!
HH
>From: "T. R. Healy and L. MacMahon" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Women's Hilarious Poetry
>Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:38:18 +0100
>
>Susan,
>
>is she not? I mean she's obviously lots more besides, sure. But what about
>_George Pansi_ and _HOW FO SMOKE LIKE ONE B-BAT ROOM BEBE_?
>
>Randolph Healy
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Susan Webster Schultz <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 7:32 PM
>Subject: Re: Women's Hilarious Poetry
>
>
> >
> > Yo, Randolph, is Kathy B really funny? Lois Ann Yamanaka certainly is,
>though it probably takes full immersion in Hawai`i's culture to realize it,
>and the humor is so bitter that the laugh is often on the one laughing (the
>way it so often happens in Beckett's prose).
> >
> > Susan (from whom one can get the Kathy B book...)
> >
>
>
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