{"product_id":"pandoras-kitchen-poems-9781636282954","title":"Pandora's Kitchen: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONALLY-HONORED POET - POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - PUSHCART PRIZE WINNER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRon Koertge explores human fragility throughout history in his poetry collection, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePANDORA'S KITCHEN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Moral certainties and stereotypes vanish in these sly\/subversive, satiric\/tender, achingly funny\/humane poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"-Amy Gerstler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e - \"They are poetry at its best, causing his readers to laugh, think, and feel anew.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"-Billy Collins, former US poet laureate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe subjects in Ron Koertge's poems include Hades' unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula's Wives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe subjects in Ron Koertge's poems include Hades' unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula's Wives. He has located Jane Austen at the mall, comforted the sun itself, and celebrated a winning day at the races. In an early poem, he extols his chosen vocation by saying this: \"It's so great to be a poet. I'm basically self-employed with nobody to please but myself.\" Yet pleasing his many fans is at the top of his Things-To-Do list. That is why poets from Billy Collins to B. H. Fairchild have called his poems masterful, quirky, deliciously sly, inventive and surprisingly sweet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Koertge\u003c\/b\u003e, taught at Pasadena City College for thirty-seven years. A prolific writer, he has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Some of his most recent books are \u003cem\u003eFever\u003c\/em\u003e (Red Hen Press 2006), \u003cem\u003eIndigo\u003c\/em\u003e (Red Hen Press 2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Ogre's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e (Red Hen Press 2013), and \u003cem\u003eVampire Planet\u003c\/em\u003e (Red Hen Press 2015). He is the recipient of grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council and has poems in two volumes of \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (1999 and 2005). A recent Pushcart Prize winner, he is also the author of \"Negative Space,\" the prose poem upon which the stop-motion film by the same name was based and was shortlisted for an Oscar in Animated Short Films in 2018. He resides in South Pasadena, California. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635398541586,"sku":"9781636282954","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_376aa80f-9cb2-4f98-b40b-07aa77ebed96.jpg?v=1759232997","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pandoras-kitchen-poems-9781636282954","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}