{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781636282954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Ron Koertge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616345555125,"sku":"9781636282954","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_814da06f-3521-40a2-bd74-f5ebbb8d0bad.jpg?v=1756189070","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pandoras-kitchen-poems-9781636282954","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}