Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead Al Ortolani 9780615793788 Books
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In Al Ortolani's Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead, rugged people inhabit a rugged landscape. But place is also memory, and memory is an act of love "Willows bend/ and one branch gone/ leaves another thousand, so/ by the time the last one's broken/ the first one's grown back/ and there you have it/ -love and willows." These poems, e-mail poems and parenthetical directions to the reader add up to a mouth-watering, twangy tale night crawls through shoelaces, a dark kitchen is muggy as the front room of Taylor's mortuary, a santo is carved from a broken bedpost, and the narrow head of a roadrunner is an arrowhead, relic of feather and bone. This evocative collection shows Ortolani at his best.
Thomas Fox Averill, author of rode, 2011 Outstanding Western Novel, Western Heritage Awards
Al Ortolani's poems open up worlds of saints, arroyos, flatbed trucks, Madonnas, hospital cafeterias, willows, monks, road trips, dead-bolted hearts, the blues, and most of all revelations, including the recipe for chili with or without armadillo. In circling around the Day of the Dead, Ortolani tilts open the thin places in which we can almost hear the voices of those long gone and absolutely hear the beat of our own hearts. Read these vivid poems, which create their own kind of music from memory, yearning, grief, anticipation, and love, and discover "where stars that fall/ finally land."
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Poet Laureate of Kansas 2009-2013
Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead Al Ortolani 9780615793788 Books
I'm always amazed and touched when I read Al's work, with how artistic, vulnerable, and intuitive his words affect me. Makes me want to sing, or paint, or play my violin. Anything to express to myself, the real and true me. Even if you don't know him personally, you might feel like you know him just a little after you read his work, or at least you'll feel like you want to know him.Product details
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Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead Al Ortolani 9780615793788 Books Reviews
Once again, Al Ortolani proves that poetry can be about anything. In this volume, he leaves his usual terrain in the Little Balkans region of Kansas for visits to Texas and Mexico. In typical Ortolani fashion, we leap from zany and amusing to poignant in the turn of a page.
Hospitals and funerals unite us in our humanity. Ortolani takes us from those tense moments of uncertainty, gathering at the hospital, "Relatives unseen for years appear,/snuffing cigarettes at the door/and sipping coffee from McDonald's" to a father's sickroom, "Pop lies in Room 217; tomorrow/drapes like a curtain between us." From his poem, "The Visitation" "Families/like mom's lay their dead in rows/simple and direct."
But with Ortolani, there is always a quirky side. We meet interesting characters Belle Starr with her blue bandana and neck scar, the "me" Charlie tells, "Quit drinking. Take your meds," and even a tarantula crossing the road in heavy traffic. Among the cast of oddballs he introduces in this book, you just may find a bit of yourself.
As you read, you'll keep saying to anyone nearby, "You've got to hear this!" Ortolani is a poet who can lure new readers to poetry and keep us all coming back for more.
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I'm always amazed and touched when I read Al's work, with how artistic, vulnerable, and intuitive his words affect me. Makes me want to sing, or paint, or play my violin. Anything to express to myself, the real and true me. Even if you don't know him personally, you might feel like you know him just a little after you read his work, or at least you'll feel like you want to know him.
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