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Author Ortolani, Al, author.

Title Swimming shelter : 100 days of Coronavirus : an exercise in the American crawl / Al Ortolani.

Publication Info. Kansas City, MO : Spartan Press, [2020]
©2020

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  811.54 Or8sw 2020    ---  DUE 05-11-25 Axe Inventory 2024
 Axe Kansas Collection  811.54 Or8sw 2020 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
 PHS Non-Fiction  811.6 Ortolani    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Kansas Collection  K 811.6 Ort    ---  Available
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Edition First edition.
Description 164 pages : 1 illustration ; 21 cm
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Series Kansas Notable Book ; 2021.
PSU Alumni Author.
Note PSU Alumni Author.
Summary "The idea for writing one poem a day for 100 days emerged slowly. In March, as we sheltered in place, I discovered that putting poems on Facebook allowed me to communicate with an immediacy that I usually only enjoyed at public readings. It tasted like bacon, like strong coffee. Naively, I thought 30 days would cover the worst of the pandemic. As I considered shutting down my daily posts, returning to sending poems out to small presses, I experienced a sense of loss, of isolation, that troubled me. I kept writing and posting, finding that I needed the electronic human contact more than a vetted publication with little feedback. Consequently, these poems have been self-published only on my Facebook platform, and on occasion, on the Kansas City Writer's Place website. In Swimming Shelter the poems are arranged chronologically as they appeared. Little has been done to revise, except for an occasional word choice selection or punctuation edit."--Author's note.
Source Wtrmrk 09.2021 PARS
Awards Kansas Notable Book, 2021.
Subject Poetry.
American poetry.
Kansas -- Poetry.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
ISBN 9781952411397 (paperback)
1952411394

 
    
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