Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move to California tostart their "real" lives--together.
Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move...
"Ron Koertge can elevate the ordinary places of America the backyard, the classroom, the mall into scenes of mock-epic significance. He can just as easily lower the mythic worlds of Superman, Ozymandias and Cinderella to a level just a few inches above the bathetic. And he does all this with a charming combination of wit and empathy, satire and sweetness."
Billy Collins
"I would think a poem entitled Getting Tough with John Ruskin, Ozymandias and Harriet, or Teen Jesus would be enough to entice any reader. But permit it to be known that Koertge also carries around a...
"Ron Koertge can elevate the ordinary places of America the backyard, the classroom, the mall into scenes of mock-epic significance. He can just as...
Ron Koertge wants to do nothing but delight. Armed with his trademark wit, he introduces readers to Little Red Riding Hood all grown up with a fondness for salsa and chips, explores the thorny relationship of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, spies a Trojan pony and the children it bamboozles, and offers an alternate reading to the Icarus story. He meets Walt Whitman on the set of an X-rated movie, attends his gardener s funeral, and goes to his beloved race track. Seminal figures from pop mythology speak up in unexpected ways: The Beast, transformed by Beauty, hints that his new life isn...
Ron Koertge wants to do nothing but delight. Armed with his trademark wit, he introduces readers to Little Red Riding Hood all grown up with a fond...
Ron Koertge eagerly tries his talented hand at Flash Fiction. In BFF, a teenage girl from the near-future orders friends from Amazon. A few pages later, a robot who travels what is left of the world and observes through well-engineered eyes claims that the sound of turbines is his lullaby. A fed-up daughter finds a foolproof way to do away with her awful mother, while in Jesus Dog a mysterious animal helps a broken man recover. A page from Lois Lane s diary reveals a shocking secret. Many mothers and daughters will see themselves in Ron s version of the Persephone & Demeter story. Readers are...
Ron Koertge eagerly tries his talented hand at Flash Fiction. In BFF, a teenage girl from the near-future orders friends from Amazon. A few pages late...
