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  • Controlled Burn
    Al Ortolani
    '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 t...
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    23,38 €

  • Bull in the Ring
    Al Ortolani
    Set in the heart of 1970s Kansas, Bull in the Ring is about a boy who wears his dead father’s army jacket, does his best to cope with the string of losers and abusers brought home by his mother, and struggles to stay in school, trying to win the approval of buddies and bullies. Armed with poetry and wit, Danny keeps moving forward. Will he find direction before he reaches the e...
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    16,60 €

  • The Taco Boat
    Al Ortolani
    Al Ortolani’s most recent collection of poems, The Taco Boat, focuses not just on the people of the American Midwest, but on the connection to the humor and pragmatism of working men and women. His poems are vignettes from the fields of Kansas, the hills of the Ozarks, and the streets of Kansas City. They are about good dogs and crazy cats. His people are family and strangers a...
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    18,02 €

  • Francis Shoots Pool at Chubb’s Bar
    Al Ortolani
    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 a...
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    12,79 €

  • How Wally Lost His Thumb and the Boy Scouts Became Cannibals
    Al Ortolani
    Al Ortolani’s poetry has appeared in journals such as Rattle, Prairie Schooner, and Tar River Poetry. His newest collection, On the Chicopee Spur, has just been released from New York Quarterly Books. A previous collection, Ghost Sign, Spartan Press/39 West, co-authored with J.T. Knoll, Adam Jameson, and Melissa Fite Johnson was selected as a Kansas Notable Book for 2017. Ortol...
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    13,35 €

  • On the Chicopee Spur
    Al Ortolani
    In On the Chicopee Spur, the haibun form allows Ortolani to speak plainly in the bread of prose, and then slice the loaf with haiku. It's the form Basho used to highlight his journeys across Japan in the seventeenth century. Many of the haiku are not written in the traditional 5-7-5 syllable format, but instead, speak tersely in the spirit of the haiku, experimental, Americ...
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    15,64 €

  • Ghost Sign
    Adam Jameson / Al Ortolani / Melissa Fite Johnson
    In the 1920s and 1930s, Pittsburg, KS was a major coal-mining town, attracting various ethnic groups from southeast Europe and beyond. The often belligerent and divisive spirit of the miners--and the unpredictable politics of Southeast Kansas--earned the region the nickname, "The Little Balkans." The four poets (Al Ortolani, Melissa Fite Johnson, Adam Jameson, JT Knoll) appeari...
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    22,19 €