Al ortolani (24 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Author's Note: The idea for writing one poem a day for 100 days emerged slowly. In March, as we sheltered in place, I discovered that putting poems on Facebook allowed me to communicate with an immediacy that I usually only enjoyed at public readings. It tasted like bacon, like strong coffee. Naively, I thought 30 days would cover the worst of the pandemic. As I considered shutting down my daily posts, returning to sending poems out to small presses, I experienced a sense of loss, of isolation, that troubled me. I kept writing and posting, finding that I needed the electronic human contact more than a vetted publication with little feedback. Consequently, these poems have been self-published only on my Facebook platform, and on occasion, on the Kansas City Writer's Place website. In Swimming Shelter the poems are arranged chronologically as they appeared. Little has been done to revise, except for an occasional word choice selection or punctuation edit. I wrote each morning. Usually, stopping only when the poem was finished. A few appeared with an immediacy that surprised me. Other times, I worked off and on throughout the day, giving them up to the internet late at night, but seldom before I was satisfied. This went against the grain of my personal writing process, as I prefer to edit only after days or weeks have passed, letting the poems cool for the critical cold eye. Self-publication scared me, sort of like the time in junior high school, when I accidentally kicked off my penny loafer into the middle of the basketball court during a game. Ninth graders dribbled around my sad shoe like they might a mouse from the biology lab. The true embarrassment was that I'd forgotten to change my socks after gym class, and so there I was, swinging my dumb foot from the balcony in a sweat-stained sock. Essentially, my social life was ruined, and I became a poet.I'd like to thank Facebook readers who followed my posts, especially those who commented on what they read. Their words and emojis, likes and loves, let me feel like a village poet, sitting around a smoky fire, probably Irish, weaving words, inventing stories. I kept the organic character of original diction in place. The use of quarantine instead of stay-at-home or sheltering-in-place is an example of learning terminology, new words for a new time. The inaccuracies are honest. These poems are not all about Covid-19, per se, but all of them, for better or worse, were discovered while swimming in shelter, crawling for calm water. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Finding the Edge appeals with a wry, powerful combination of narrative and lyrical poems. The narratives are small novels, chiseled studies of human folly and vulnerability: You won't soon forget the reckless, highway-obsessed Wally or the hapless woman in 'Copperhead.' In his lyrical mode, Ortolani is beautifully expansive ('In the surrounding air, /the night spreads from my fingertips.'). Cinematic images abound to present a wondrous but never-sentimentalized world of nature. After reading Ortolani, you'll not look at coyotes, back roads, or your lover's face in the old, expected ways again.' --Jo McDougall.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Reading Al Ortolani always feels like visiting a good friend who never runs out of stories to tell. Controlled Burn adds a new element to the alchemy, confronting politics more directly than in past books, but always with Al's characteristic wit and wisdom. From his career as a teacher back to his youth dodging trains, this is a poet who has lived a rich life in all the ways that matter, and the result is a collection of poems that matter. As he explains, 'I sunk the spade like my father did, used my weight to lift the earth.' -Timothy Green, editor of Rattle, author of American Fractal'Al Ortolani's Controlled Burn blazes across the landscape of a poet's everyday life. Here you will find poems about everything from COVID to cabbage soup, teaching to retirement, pets to Peter Rabbit, grandparenting to buying boots, and always with the poet's signature witty, cool, and humane voice. Unlike many contemporary American poets who pad their work with fanciful excess, Ortolani's poems burn with a language so clear, concise, and under control that it makes room for new growth.'-Clint Margrave, author of Visitor'A poet, a real poet, observes--he sees through what is in front of him all the way into what it means or what it could mean. 'Nine Holes at the Elks Club' is such a poem, deriving rich meaning and possibility from a moment remembered from his childhood, watching his father playing golf alone in the morning at the Elks Club before work. The poem begins with the boy's father pulling him along in a golf cart, and it ends beautifully and poignantly: Soon, the day would become too busy for a father and son, his wing-tipped spikes holding us to the earth. This is poetry, made (as real poetry is) from whatever is at hand, and finding meaning there through the eyes of (in this case) a watchful young boy who would grow up to be a fine poet.-Patricia Traxler, author of Paradise Notes'Al Ortolani offers details of his childhood-- eating Tater Tots, chewing Juicy Fruit, swinging his father's cast-off golf irons -- to create assemblages of hope and regret. The sadness and cruelty of mid-century suburban America are revealed in chilling imagery: 'the souls of cows, / if they have one, / are grilled / medium rare with cheese.' Ortolani has a gift for raising anecdote to the level of legend. '- Michael Simms, author of Strange Meadowlark.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Al Ortolani's newest collection of poetry, On the Chicopee Spur, was released from New York Quarterly Books in 2018. How Wally Lost His Thumb and the Boy Scouts Became Cannibals, a mix of old and new "Wally poems" also appeared from Spartan Press the same year. A previous collection, Ghost Sign, co-authored with J.T. Knoll, Adam Jameson, and Melissa Fite Johnson was selected as a Kansas Notable Book for 2017. In 2019, Ortolani was a winner of the Rattle Chapbook Series Award. He 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. After 43 years of teaching English in public schools, he currently lives a life without bells and fire drills in the Kansas City area.…