There'll Be a Slight Delay: And Other Poems for Grown-Ups

by Jack Prelutsky, Jack Ziegler (Illustrator)

A collection of poetry especially for adults, about such topics as being macho, hemorrhoids, meter maids, politicians, true love, Mondays, sex, cryogenics, roommates, and airplane delays

Genres: Poetry, Humor, Adult

1 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1991

About the author

Jack Prelutsky is an American poet. He attended New York public schools, and later the High School of Music and Art and Hunter College. Prelutsky, who has also worked as a busboy, furniture mover, folk singer, and cab driver, claims that he hated poetry in grade school because of the way it was taught. He is the author of more than 30 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep< and A Pizza the Size of the Sun. He has also compiled countless children's anthologies comprised of poems of others'. Jack Prelutsky was married to Von Tre Venefue, a woman he had met in France. They divorced in 1995, but Jack remarried. He currently lives in Washington state with his wife, Carolyn. He befriended a gay poet named Espiritu Salamanca in 1997 and both now work together in writing poems and stories for children and adults alike.

Reviews

[Amit · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not realize there is a pessimist and cranky sort of humor in poetry, it is in this book via a cartoonist for New Yorker. There is a giggle here and there, but more Saddest than Gladdest, not too much wit, so have chucked it to side after reading about 80% of this tiny volume, to do more before my monday woes.

[Anne, Unfinished Woman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious. I sat in Black Sun Books laughing out loud at these wonderful witty poems about our mundane life foibles.

[TK Keanini · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the honor of working with Jack Prelutsky when I was at Broderbund Software. Complete genius!

This book captures the playfulness that we all should practice.

[Austen to Zafón · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've loved Prelutsky for kids, but I was disappointed in the crassness of his poetry for grown-ups. Kind of icky really.

[Martha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had to skip several poems.

[Putnam Harper · Rating 4 out of 5]

These were hilarious, I wish he wrote more of them.