Vampire Planet
Ron Koertge
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Vampire Planet is an eclectic, witty, and often moving New & Selected collection of poems from a writer whom former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins calls "the wisest, most entertaining wise guy in American poetry."
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Publish Date
April 01, 2016
Pages
144
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781597097604
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About the Author
A prolific writer, Ron Koertgewas published widely in the '60s and '70s in such seminal magazines as Kayak and PoetryNow. His first book, The Father Poems, was published in 1973, and was soon followed by many more, including poetry, prose, novels-in-verse, and fiction for teenagers. His most recent book, Sex World, was released in Fall 2014 from Red Hen Press. Ron is the recipient of grants from the N.E.A. and the California Arts Council and has poems in two volumes of Best American Poetry (1999 and 2005). His books have been honored by the American Library Association, and two have received PEN awards. After teaching for thirty-seven years at the city college in Pasadena, he retired and now teaches at Hamline University in their low-residency MFA program for Children's Writing. He currently lives in South Pasadena, CA, with his wife, Bianca Richards.
Reviews
Is anyone writing poems that are as memorable, masterful, and quirky as Ron Koertge s? If you want the lowdown on Lilith, and if you can bear to read about Lois Lane aging, and if you long to know the unsavory truth about Lazarus after he returned from the dead, this deliciously smart and entertaining collection of poems is the one you've been looking for! Steve Kowit"
Ron Koertge is an expert in the art of disorientation. His tongue-in-cheek poems are clever, of course, but they also dispense an unsettling, probably illegal mixture of Novocain and Kool-Aid.When you finish a poem by Koertge, you look around with the sensation that yourliving room furniture has been rearranged while you were away.This is his long-standing, one-person campaign for wakefulness in the human situation. The New & Selected Poems is a serious cocktail. Tony Hoagland"
Whimsey meet Oddness. Meet Oddness, Pathos. Hey, Pathos let me introduce you to Funniness. Don't make fun of her name, though, don't try to be funny leave that to her. Fantastical!Say, I'd like you meet Whimsey, Oddness, Pathos and Funniness. (Yeah, shush, we've heard that joke stick with the fantastical, O.K.?) Is that . . . ?Look, it s Ron Koertge, hanging out with Tenderness. Hey Koertge! C mere, I want you to meet Whimsey, Oddness, Pathos and Fun . . . Oh, you know them already? Oh. You guys know Ron? For a long time? Oh. Yes. Right. I knew that. Suzanne Lummis"
Ron Koertge is an expert in the art of disorientation. His tongue-in-cheek poems are clever, of course, but they also dispense an unsettling, probably illegal mixture of Novocain and Kool-Aid.When you finish a poem by Koertge, you look around with the sensation that yourliving room furniture has been rearranged while you were away.This is his long-standing, one-person campaign for wakefulness in the human situation. The New & Selected Poems is a serious cocktail. Tony Hoagland"
Whimsey meet Oddness. Meet Oddness, Pathos. Hey, Pathos let me introduce you to Funniness. Don't make fun of her name, though, don't try to be funny leave that to her. Fantastical!Say, I'd like you meet Whimsey, Oddness, Pathos and Funniness. (Yeah, shush, we've heard that joke stick with the fantastical, O.K.?) Is that . . . ?Look, it s Ron Koertge, hanging out with Tenderness. Hey Koertge! C mere, I want you to meet Whimsey, Oddness, Pathos and Fun . . . Oh, you know them already? Oh. You guys know Ron? For a long time? Oh. Yes. Right. I knew that. Suzanne Lummis"
