Waving Mustard in Surrender - Softcover

Ortolani, Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935520997 ISBN 13: 9781935520993

Verlag: NYQ Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Poetry. The poems in Al Ortolani's newest collection, WAVING MUSTARD IN SURRENDER, come from the streets of Kansas City and the farm roads of Southeast Kansas. His narratives are as much at home on asphalt as they are in bean fields. The natural world is common to the many facets of this collection. Like birds, his poems fly with striking images—as accessible as crank-pot crows, assassin herons, or starlings startled by cannon shot. There's a good deal of wind and spit, flower and piss in a poetry where tornadoes and baseball are not incongruous to a single summer evening. His characters are tough and smart. They revel in a lingering city decadence and messy small town beauty.

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Al Ortolani is the Manuscript Editor for Woodley Press in Topeka, Kansas, and has directed a memoir writing project for Vietnam veterans across Kansas in association with the Library of Congress and Humanities Kansas. He is a 2019 recipient of the Rattle Chapbook Series Award. He has been a Kansas Notable Book recipient in 2017 and 2021. His poetry has appeared in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry and in Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. After 43 years of teaching English in public schools, he currently lives a life without bells and fire drills in the Kansas City area with his wife Sherri and their rescue dog Stanley.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NYQ Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1935520997
• ISBN 13: 9781935520993
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
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