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The Odd Puppet Odyssey First Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Gold, Richard (Author)
ISBN: 0930773683     ISBN-13: 9780930773687
Publisher: Black Heron Press
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: January 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 8.06" W x 7.6" (0.77 lbs) 82 pages
 
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The Odd Puppet Odyssey is an illustrated (six four-color illustrations) series of narrative poems. Reading as parables, they are poems for adults about the voyage of two puppet characters, Pongo and Rico. In the course of their journey, they explore identity, sexuality, adulthood, relationships and some of the social forces that affect them and their world. Recalling Homer's Odyssey as well as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Collodi's The Adventures of Pinoccio, and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Pongo and Rico travel down a rabbit hole to meet Death in Wonderland, are chased by the Hairy Monster of Manhood, and climb through the interior of a giant model of themselves. Leavened with humor and irony, this book is a picaresque story of self-acceptance and growth. Celeste Ericsson, the illustrator, worked in tandem with the author, so that poems and illustrations evolved together. The artist has been influenced by Renaissance and Baroque art, the commedia dell'arte and the satirical etchings of James Gillray.

Contributor Bio(s): Gold, Richard: - Richard Gold founded and runs the Pongo Teen Writing Project, based in Seattle. Through Pongo, the author goes into jails, homeless shelters, and psychiatric hospitals to help adolescents write about their lives. This experience has clearly informed The Odd Puppet Odyssey.