This poetry collection examines memory and awareness of what has been, where we are and where we might be going. Using wit and steering clear of sentimentality, Orfanella's poems deliver a plethora of gritty, reality-infused observations contrasted with delightful whimsy and pop-cultural references. The poet explores decades-long change across America, in his heart, and in his family with honesty and reverence. His conclusions will both startle and move the engaged reader. Lou Orfanella believes that writing is a strip-mining process in which physical, emotional, and spiritual truths are unearthed as one digs deeper and deeper into one's storehouse of memories and experiences.  He is a New York based teacher and writer who holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University.  He teaches at Western Connecticut State University and in the Valhalla, New York school district.  His work has appeared nationally and regionally in such publications as Teacher Magazine, New York Teacher, English Journal, College Bound, Discoveries, The New York Daily News, World Hunger Year Magazine, WordWrights!, The Danbury News-Times, and many others.

Composite Sketches

Literature & Fiction

Orfanella, Lou

Poetry

Fine Tooth Pr Llc

A well-known writer, lecturer, teacher, and workshop facilitator, Lou Orfanella, the author of Composite Sketches, now takes his readers inside the creative process with Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer's Process and Possibilities. In this unique combination of informative essays, personal anecdotes, writing samples, and thought provoking prompts, he combines instruction, inspiration, and memoir to create a literary scrapbook and a portable writing workshop for both novice and veteran authors.

Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer's Process and Possibilities

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Lou Orfanella, the author of Composite Sketches and Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer's Process and Possibilities returns with a new collection of poems that both preserves the past and looks to the future. Through memoir, collaboration, and keen observation, the poet inspires readers and celebrates life's little moments.

Allurements And Lamentations

History & Criticism

In Excursions: Poetry and Prose, Lou Orfanella, the author of Composite Sketches, Allurements and Lamentations and Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer's Process and Possibilities explores a variety of literary genres with his trademark blending of past and present, his knack for making the personal become universal, and a talent for adding just the right dose of popular culture as he takes readers along merging paths and divided highways.

Excursions: Poetry and Prose

Summer rising, river flowing

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