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John
A collection of 25 portrait poems of Famous and Infamous Johns. Includes portrait sketches of seven of those Johns by artist Justin Marable.
Matt Porubsky’s John presents the reader with a glimpse of twenty-five characters who share the name John. Taken from history and pop culture, they are as unique as fingerprints. They have composed, crusaded and murdered. Porubsky’s John Phillip Sousa, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and John Wilkes Booth share more than just first names. They are bound in the commonalty of the human experience. Porubsky’s poems are as singular as crystals, and yet, as universal as gravel—“a cumulative shadow/of you and you.” John is the journey of a contemporary Everyman. He is Johnny Appleseed, John Brown, and John Q. Public—joy-filled, pain-wracked, and hope-born.
Al Ortolani author Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead
Matt Porubsky’s John presents the reader with a glimpse of twenty-five characters who share the name John. Taken from history and pop culture, they are as unique as fingerprints. They have composed, crusaded and murdered. Porubsky’s John Phillip Sousa, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and John Wilkes Booth share more than just first names. They are bound in the commonalty of the human experience. Porubsky’s poems are as singular as crystals, and yet, as universal as gravel—“a cumulative shadow/of you and you.” John is the journey of a contemporary Everyman. He is Johnny Appleseed, John Brown, and John Q. Public—joy-filled, pain-wracked, and hope-born.
Al Ortolani author Cooking Chili on the Day of the Dead
30 pages, Hand bound
First published June 1, 2013
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