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I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend easily solidifies his reputation as a poet who is very funny and also very serious. In these surprising and delightful poems, a mannequin joins the Me Too movement, a summer job turns into a lesson in class distinctions, and Jane Austen makes a surprise appearance at a mall. Ron Koertge’s uniquely playful imagination is on display in poem after poem.

ISBN-13: 9781636280332

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Publication Date: 10-04-2022

Pages: 88

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Ron Koertge, a long-time resident of South Pasadena, taught at Pasadena City College for thirty-seven years. A prolific writer, he has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Some of his most recent books are Fever (Red Hen Press, 2006), Indigo (Red Hen Press, 2009), The Ogre’s Wife (Red Hen Press, 2013), and Vampire Planet (Red Hen Press, 2015). He is the recipient of grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council and has poems in two volumes of Best American Poetry (1999 and 2005). A recent Pushcart Prize winner, he is also the author of “Negative Space,” the prose poem upon which the stop-motion film by the same name was based and was shortlisted for an Oscar in Animated Short Films in 2018.

Table of Contents

I

I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend 13

Parkviewl-9426 14

The Wasp Woman 15

Death's Hankies 16

Mermaids 17

Girl Talk 18

Lover's Lane 19

Law & Order 20

The Search Party 21

Bears from Space 22

Mannequin 23

Noir ABCs 24

Dear Mr. K 25

Mickey 26

After the Funeral 27

II

The Sun Is Worried 31

Listen, I'm Serious 32

Red Redux 33

Silk 34

Where I Live Now 36

"Notes, Letters and Billet-Doux Will Soon be a Thing of the Past." 37

Double Vision 38

Last night 39

The Afterlife 40

Jane Austen at the Mail 41

I Like to Kiss 41

From The Secret Diaries of Mary Wolhtonecraft Shelley 43

"Can You Tell Us a Little About Your Wife?" 44

All the News 45

III

"The Only Violin in Eden" 49

Orpheus Hearts Eurydice 50

Reception to Follow 51

Waiting for the Library to Open 52

My Grandma Took the Train to Minneapolis 53

Tonight 54

Men at Work 55

Sodom 56

Yahweh Barbie 57

They Came, Took the Books Away, and Left New Guidelines for School Visits 58

The Cat Who Doesn't Like Anybody But My Wife Lolls in Ezra Pound's Lap 59

A Crash Test Dummy Tells All 60

Pal the Pony 61

The Dixie Diner 62

IV

The Bride of Frankenstein 65

Piece Work from the Garment Factory 66

Aphrodite to Ares 67

The Getaway Race 68

"The uneasy trance will never break." 69

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 70

"The husband has a husband, the wife has a wife" 71

King Kong Talks about His Childhood 72

It's After Dinner 72

Rapunzel at Eleven 74

I Spake as a Child 75

The Creature 76

Household Gods 77

My Friends and I Wanted to be Movie Stars 78

Message from Another Planet 79

The Natural World 80

Things and How They Work 81