Hunting the Snark Poems", "Self-Pity Poems", "West Coast Poems". The title is a reference to Lewis Carroll’s poem "Hunting of the Snark". Peters anthologizes in Hunting the Snark a comprehensive amount of poets and their poems including widely noted poets such as Robert Hass, Billy Collins, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery to obscure noted poets Wilma McDaniel, Paul Vangelisti, David Ray and Alfred Starr Hamilton. On the Trico libraries news and notes web, library associate Evelyn Khoo chose the Hunting of the Snark as “Curious, Useful, Edifying, Inspiring: The Reference Books of McCabe Library". Khoo assesses the book as a book that
How Doth the Little Crocodile How Doth the Little Crocodile "How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his novel, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". It is recited by Alice in Chapter 2. It describes a crafty crocodile which lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile. This poem is performed by Richard Haydn in "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) and by Fiona Fullerton in the film "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1972). "How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a parody of the moralistic poem "" by Isaac Watts, which is what Alice was originally trying to recite. Watts' poem begins