On Your Marks: A Package of Punctuation

Those who pepper their prose heavily with commas, dashes, and exclamation points, as well as those who are stingy with them, will find guidance and gaiety in this punctuation mark Who’s Who by that master of light verse, Richard Armour. From the “fat little period, round as a ball” to the asterisk and ellipsis, sixteen punctuation marks merrily perform their functions, aided by eye-catching designs.

Ogden Nash writes in his foreword: “The rhymes are terse and memorable, the reasons clearly stated and easy to comprehend, .... Just the thing for today's generation of aspiring writers and not too late, I hope, for yesterday's.”