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Yet More Comic & Curious Verse
Collection of poems for young people, such as a cautionary tale about Junior Tom who built his own atomic bomb.
Lively read.
This was reissued during early 1970s with a cartoon cover.
Lively read.
This was reissued during early 1970s with a cartoon cover.
350 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1959
21 people want to read
About the author
John Michael Cohen
63 books3 followersJohn Michael Cohen was a prolific translator of European literature into English.
Cohen launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashbery, in his book Other Traditions.
In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation.
In addition to his translations of major works of Spanish and French literature for Penguin, Cohen also edited several important anthologies of Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as many of the Penguin Classics.
He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher.
He also wrote a number of works of literary criticism and biography.
Cohen launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashbery, in his book Other Traditions.
In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation.
In addition to his translations of major works of Spanish and French literature for Penguin, Cohen also edited several important anthologies of Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as many of the Penguin Classics.
He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher.
He also wrote a number of works of literary criticism and biography.
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July 20, 2014
Collection of poems for young people, such as a cautionary tale about Junior Tom who built his own atomic bomb.
Lively read.
This was reissued during early 1970s with a cartoon cover. That was the version gifted to me.
Lively read.
This was reissued during early 1970s with a cartoon cover. That was the version gifted to me.
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