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Hip Hops: Poems about Beer

From Li Bai`s `Bring in the Ale` to Ted Kooser`s `Beer Bottle`; from Robert Burns`s` John Barleycorn` to Carol Ann Duffy`s `John Barleycorn` (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here attest to humankind`s long and joyous (mostly) relationship with the world`s most popular alcoholic beverage. A surprising number of authors, and perhaps some surprising authors, have added their tributes to the brew. Here, to name but a few, we find Charles Baudelaire, John Betjamen, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Raymond Carver, Amy Clampitt, Emily Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, Eric Idle, E. Nesbit, Flann O`Brien, Frank O`Hara, Sylvia Plath, Arthur RImbaud, Rumi and Hank WIlliams, all rather less than sober. Unsurprisingly, `Anon.` is widely represented, in particularly exuberant spirits. There are recipes, and hangovers (inevitably); there`s singing … a hymn to NInkasi, ancient Sumerian goddess of beer, Prohibition protest songs and old English drinking catches; there is philosophy (of a sort), and consolation. Whether pulling up at the celestial bar in Keats`s `Mermaid Tavern` or at the grittier, jazzier one in Carl Sandburg`s `Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio`, lovers of beer and poetry are sure to find something to celebrate in these pages.

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