{"product_id":"9781636282954","title":"Pandora's Kitchen: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONALLY-HONORED POET • POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA • PUSHCART PRIZE WINNER \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Koertge explores human fragility throughout history in his poetry collection, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePANDORA’S KITCHEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Moral certainties and stereotypes vanish in these sly\/subversive, satiric\/tender, achingly funny\/humane poems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e”–Amy Gerstler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e • “They are poetry at its best, causing his readers to laugh, think, and feel anew.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e”–Billy Collins, former US poet laureate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe subjects in Ron Koertge’s poems include Hades’ unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula’s Wives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42612242776125,"sku":"9781636282954","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781636282954_p0.jpg?v=1771583437","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781636282954","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}