Enough Rope

In addition to being regarded as the wittiest woman in America and a member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table Dorothy Parker was also one of the most well-liked poets of the Jazz Era. With the numerous poems she published in Vanity Fair The New Yorker and Life and gathered in her debut book in 1926 her verbal virtuosity and caustic humour were on full show. The poems in Enough Rope vary from playful self-deprecation to biting sarcasm while delightfully skewering emotional cliches about men and women's relationships.