Pandora's Kitchen: Poems - Ron Koertge

nNATIONALLY-HONORED POET - POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - PUSHCART PRIZE WINNER n n nRon Koertge explores human fragility throughout history in his poetry collection, PANDORA'S KITCHENn n nMoral 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. n nThe subjects in Ron Koertge's poems include Hades' unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula's Wives. n nThe 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.n