{"product_id":"9781636282954","title":"Pandora's Kitchen : Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONALLY-HONORED POET • POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA • PUSHCART PRIZE WINNER \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRon Koertge explores human fragility throughout history in his poetry collection, PANDORA'S KITCHEN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Moral certainties and stereotypes vanish in these sly\/subversive, satiric\/tender, achingly funny\/humane poems.\"-Amy Gerstler • \"They are poetry at its best, causing his readers to laugh, think, and feel anew.\"-Billy Collins, former US poet laureate. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe subjects in Ron Koertge's poems include Hades' unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula's Wives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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":52441498190135,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":124.34,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781636282954-1.jpg?v=1783227083","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781636282954","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}