Al Ortolani
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Book List:
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Slow Stirring Spoon
(chapbook), High/Coo Press, 1981
The Last Hippie of Camp 50
, Woodley Press, 1989
Finding the Edge
, Woodley Press, 2011
Wren’s House
, Coal City Press, 2012
Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead
, Aldrich Press, 2013
Waving Mustard in Surrender
, New York Quarterly Books, 2014
Francis Shoots Pool at Chubb’s Bar
, Spartan Press, 2015
Paper Birds Don’t Fly,
New York Quarterly Books, 2015
Ghost Sign
(co-authored), 39 West Press, 2016.
How Wally Lost His Thumb and the Boy Scouts Became Cannibals
,
Spartan Press, 2018
On the Chicopee Spur,
New York Quarterly Books, 2018
Hansel & Gretel Get the Word on the Street
(chapbook), Rattle Press, 2019
Swimming Shelter: An Exercise in 100 Days of Poetry,
Spartan Press, 2020
The Taco Boat,
New York Quarterly Books, (Fall 2022)
also from Spartan Press
available from New York Quarterly Books
also available from NYQ Books