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The Odd Puppet Odyssey Illustrated Poems
ISBN 978-0930773-687 |
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The Odd Puppet Odyssey Illustrated Poems
ISBN 978-0930773-687 |
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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 Pinocchio,
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, The Odd Puppet Odyssey is ultimately a picaresque story
of self-acceptance and growth.
The Odd Puppet Odyssey is a collaboration between poet and artist in the truest sense. The Odd Puppet Odyssey is Richard Gold's first book. He is the publisher of Pongo Press, a publisher of chapbooks written by incarcerated youth.
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