Your Happiness Might Only Be Medium: Some Original Epigrammatic Poems

By Martin Wasserman

An epigrammatic poem is a short, pithy piece of verse which through humor, or by making a blatant statement, expresses a single thought or observation. In this present collection, Professor Wasserman chooses to write his original epigrammatic verses in such a way that each poem sounds like the spoken English heard in everyday conversations. He does so because he believes that if each poem on the page represents a particular verbal remark, then the reader will have no choice but to take on the dual roles of both reader and listener. Professor Wasserman shows us through his poems that the adoption of dual roles is really an advantageous choice for any individual wanting to discover the true wisdom contained in epigrammatic poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664162624

Martin Wasserman

Martin Wasserman, the creator of this book, is a Professor Emeritus at SUNY Adirondack, a college in the State University of New York system where he taught for thirty-six years. During his career he published over thirty journal articles and three books. One of those works, Kafka Kaleidoscope, was chosen as a “Best Book” by the Small Press Review in 1999. Professor Wasserman’s two most recent works are an original poetry piece entitled Kafka, Rilke, Nadel: Three German Writers Pulling Me Toward the East and a poetry translation called What There Is, As It Is: The Epigrammatic Poems of Ludwig Feuerbach.

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