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Dorothy Parker’s ‘Resumé’ explores themes of death and suicide as well as free choice and life. Each of these is tied up in the ability, or lack thereof, to end one’s life. She brings readers through seven different ways to take one’s own life (guns, razors, gas, and more).
Condolence. Dorothy Parker. 1893 –. 1967. They hurried here, as soon as you had died, Their faces damp with haste and sympathy, And pressed my hand in theirs, and smoothed my knee, And clicked their tongues, and watched me, mournful-eyed. Gently they told me of that Other Side—.
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
7 Ιουν 2017 · On the 50th anniversary of her death, Hephzibah Anderson looks beyond Dorothy Parker’s wisecracks to find another side of the legendary wit. “Excuse my dust”: these are the words that ...
Parker’s poetry is marked by cleverness but also by the deep depression that plagued her. Focusing on power dynamics, especially those involving gender, her poetry—sometimes dismissed as “light” or “flapper” verse—pulled apart the fabric of American society.
A series of anonymous comic poems published more than 100 years ago in New York magazine have finally been attributed - and the writer is Dorothy Parker, according to the Times.
Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Dorothy Parker built a career that was defined by her wit and her incisive commentary on contemporary America. She was born two months prematurely at her family’s summer home in West End, New Jersey. By the time she was...
