Yellow Moving Van

Ron Koertge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Published:16th Oct '18

Should be back in stock very soon

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A new collection of poetry from the poet and novelist Ron Koertge.

Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. These poems like to sometimes embrace and sometimes confound expectations, and they all stand together as enemies of the murky and pompous.

Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. The author celebrates his roots in the Mid-West and a few pages later stops off in Transylvania. These poems like to sometimes embrace and sometimes confound expectations, and they all stand together as enemies of the murky and pompous. There is apparently no subject -- Prometheus, a fifty foot woman, or Death himself -- that is unwilling to fall under his spell.

In the funhouse world of Ron Koertge, Mary’s halo is as big as an inner tube, Mrs. Death fills in for her dreaded husband, and it takes a whole day and a half to build Rome. These new poems will entertain you so well, you might not even notice how the poet is issuing everywhere little appeals to your heart.

* Billy Collins *

Who wouldn’t want to read poems entitled Lovesick Girls in Prison, Reading to the Bland, or Death Hands Me the Scythe? In Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van, you might not be certain if you should laugh out loud or squirm with recognition at our common humanity.

* Laurel Ann Bogen *

Ron Koertge re-visits myths, write about farmers in the heartland, and chats with the breeze in Southern California. I’m going to give this book to all my friends.

* Charles Harper We

ISBN: 9780822965626

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65 pages