Book is 111 pp.; color illus. A collection of short poems parodically summarizing or commenting on books, mainly staples of the literary curriculum. "Beowulf" was not included in the original 1971 edition, but is a new addition to this revised and expanded edition. "Beowulf" has one illustration, depicting Grendel seated at a cafe-type table licking his lips over two tiny warriors on a plate (21).

The poem begins:

Monster Grendel's tastes are plainish.
Breakfast? Just a couple Danish.

King of Danes is frantic, very.
Wait! Here comes the Malmö ferry

Bringing Beowulf, his neighbor,
Mighty swinger with a saber! (20)

And ends:

Sorrow-stricken, half the nation
Flocked to Beowulf's cremation;
Round his pyre, with drums a-muffle
Did a Nordic soft-shoe shuffle. (21; lack of stanza break between couplets sic)

Not in MO2.

BAM.