SONGS OF WALL STREET An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors [Hardcover]

Michael Silverstein (Author), by Michael Silverstein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2001

He's business savvy, she's making deals, they're on the go-who has time to wonder what the heck Emily Dickinson or Lord Byron meant in their eloquent 19th-century poetry? This hilarious collection, compiled by the self-proclaimed "Poet Laureate of Wall Street," contains classic works of literature translated into user-friendly and market-savvy verse. ("Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" becomes "Shall I Declare Thee to the IRS?" and "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" becomes "A Passionate Broker to His Client.") A perfect gift for anyone interested in today's economy, Songs of Wall Street is guaranteed to leave business types in stitches! Michael Silverstein has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg magazine. He has also made several appearances on National Public Radio.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"When young day trader stoops to folly,/ And finds the Internet betrays,/ Will cokes and donuts make him jolly?/ Will Fritos keep the tears away?" asks Michael Silverstein in his (now slightly dated) takeoff on Oliver Goldsmith's "Woman." Songs of Wall Street: An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors makes New Economized spoofs of work by 49 poets, from the Elizabethans to mystics, Romantics and English and American Victorians. Christina Rossetti's "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" becomes "What I most dread, dear client,/ Is that you will depart;// ...I shan't then get my fees;/ I shan't then buy a Hampton house/ My trophy wife, to please." Those fees are already long gone.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Review

...combines the brilliance of great literature with the tedium of stocks and humor that Wall Street is desperately lacking. -- Inside Business (Richmond, VA), July 9,

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076240938X
• ISBN-13: 978-0762409389
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,528,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry redeemed?, July 22, 2001

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Steve Panish (Milton, NH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SONGS OF WALL STREET An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors (Hardcover)

This slender but iconoclasticly packed volume takes a clever and literary poke at the vagaries of the financial world. If you are an investor, you will find yourself herein, and the image may not be entirely to your liking! As compensation, you may also find your broker, perhaps in Elizabethan garb. This book is the perfect companion with which to enter the new financial order of 2001, irrespective of how much you lost. With this book flogging the street, who needs Peter Lynch?

I gave a copy to my broker....and he hasn't shot me yet.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Silverstein breaks it down!, May 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: SONGS OF WALL STREET An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors (Hardcover)

Cutting through the jargon and the hyperbole, Silverstein offers his jaundiced, cycnical, more-than-slightly-skewed and yet always, always, brilliantly funny take on *the Markets* with this collection!

And after reading it, if you're bitten with the bug --as I was -- you can always try your hand at satirical verse on the wallstreetpoet.com Web site..:)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who'd a thunk it, May 23, 2001

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Dan Jones (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SONGS OF WALL STREET An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors (Hardcover)

Finally, a way to keep market madness in perspective. Pontification with poetry. This is a unique work that deserves a wide audience for the fresh approach it brings to our current obsessions.