Here he mixes sophistication with faux-naivete to create pertinent insights about family, humiliation and poetry and brings everyone back down to earth.

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. First, they would consult the ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. During a week of funerals ...