Humorous Poems collection

Levities: Humorous Poems

Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz

Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz holds an M. A. and an MPhil in linguistics, is in the dissertation stage of a PhD program in linguistics, and previously taught The Structure of Modern English and The History of the English Language at Hunter College in Manhattan, New York City. As linguists understand language to be the pairing of form and meaning, Mr. Shavitz’s poetry engages not only with meaning but with the aspects of linguistic form, including prosody (meter), phonological patterns (e. g., rhyme, alliteration, sound class patterning), and translanguaging and dialectal phenomena (e. g., varying and mixing dialects and languages). Mr. Shavitz’s training in the structure of language affords him technical control over the form of his poems, allowing for infinite design possibilities. For more of Mr. Shavitz’s work and poetry, view www.kingsfieldendeavors.com.

This volume is a collection of humorous and light poetry. It is part of the author’s Levities and Gravities project. The Levities and Gravities project aims to demonstrate the power of attention to linguistic form in poetry and to highlight the fact that poetry can feed any emotion, not just the heavy ones. This volume contains “levities,” or humorous or light poems, but the associated gravities series presents serious poems.

Poetry readers, readers of humor books, lovers of song lyrics. Primarily for adults and older teenagers.

Something bright that suggests humor. It should not suggest silliness or stupidity, though. The humor is often intellectual.

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Book cover starts at €289.