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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight
Upton Uxbridge Underwood, with commentary by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
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Paperback, 211 pages; 2011
$12.95
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While still in England, I managed to learn from a retired research librarian of Upton Uxbridge Underwood, and his works The Language of the Beard and Whiskers of the World. She also told me of the most rare piece in the Uxbridge beard catalog, the pamphlet Poets Ranked by Beard Weight, a text so ambitious it necessitated a research team and laboratory. It was revered as much for its content as its achievement in literary eccentricity. I had found it: The pinnacle of ancient beard wisdom, penned at a time when facial hair was at its finest! --from the preface by Jack Passion
If beard wisdom--or, more accurately, a brilliantly clever spoof of such--is what you seek, Poets Ranked by Beard Weight cannot be beat. With lively literary panache, this "Commemorative Edition" presents beard decorum ("Never flaunt the beard!"); beard exploits; beard science; universal beard typology (from the impactful "muttonchops with handlebar" to the wispy "mimsy"); a list (as promised in the title) of poets ranked by "poetic gravity" (aka, beard weight); and so much more! Book lovers and whisker growers alike will treasure this quirky compendium of erudite facial-hair esoterica.
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