Dedicated to his young protégés George Sterling and Herman Scheffauer, this collection gathers Bierce’s newspaper verse. Much of it attacks real people by name, from local politicians and preachers to rival journalists, and Bierce defends the practice in his preface; mixed in are graver poems on death, convalescence and the passing show of human folly.
Merciless verse from the author of The Devil’s Dictionary, for readers who like their wit with teeth. Download the free EPUB.