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by Herbert Knapp (Author)
These poems read as if they were written in response to recent political events. Not so. Almost all of them were written years ago, some over half a century ago, which shows the country has been in the same kinds of trouble for a long time. There are jingles here, ironic monologues, epigrams, sonnets, and stories. They are united by the author's awareness of his situation: The world I'm in is not the one I knew when I was 21 in '52
Author Biography
HERBERT KNAPP was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1931 and graduated from the University of Missouri where he edited Showme, the student humor magazine. He received an M.A. from the University of Kansas City, taught in both public and private high schools and in Panama at the Canal Zone College for 20 years. He and his wife, Mary, now live in New York City. They are co-authors of One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American Children (W.W. Norton, 1976) and Red, White, and Blue Paradise (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984), a memoir of their years in the American Canal Zone in Panama.
