I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend

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I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinsons 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 Koertges uniquely playful imagination is on display in poem after poem.

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"Detailed and full of surprises, I DreamedI Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend shows what poetry can do when it doesn't take itself too seriously." Sara Beth West, Shelf Awareness Starred Review

Author Bio

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 Ogres 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.