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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).
7 Ιουν 2017 · But though they encapsulate the pitchy humour that made her the feared darling of literary New York in her prime, on the 50th anniversary of her death, it’s another of her suggested epitaphs ...
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.
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.
26 Σεπ 2015 · Behind her famous acid wit was a life often filled with struggle and sadness. Following a difficult childhood, she lived fairly recklessly, drinking excessively, going from one bad relationship to another, and often contemplating suicide. ‘What fresh hell is this?’ she wondered in one famous poem.
7 Απρ 2016 · It’s also Parker dealing with her own failed suicide attempts—slashed wrists, Veronal (Big Blonde’s drug of choice). Suicide was a constant reality for her. The novel she began was to be called Sonnets in Suicide. One of her most famous poems, “Résumé,” summed things up: Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs ...
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.
