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Ron Androla

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born

August 07, 1954

gender

male

website

http://enhancedphotos.com/cgibin/board/view.cgi

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Entertainment

influences

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member since

August 2008

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at 13 i fell in love with a 15 year old girl, who sooned turned 16, & able to drive. i wrote long-hand love poems to her in notebooks, the most forceful act i cld do when not talking to her on the phone for many solid hours. i don't remeber how we ended, but at my first year of college in 1972 she was in an accident, her vett slipped under the back of a semi truck, decapitating her. poetry became energy. my highschool sweetheart kathy must have had hundreds of sappy loves poems written for her, & ultimately there's tragedy there too. i felt my being bend to forms of poetry, felt most comfortable with the likes of ez pound & charles olson & robert creeley & william carlos williams, but read various outshoots from w.s. mer...more

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Books by Ron Androla

Average rating: 4.95 · 76 ratings · 18 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Mipoesias by Ron Androla (Goodreads Author), Tony Trigilio (Goodreads Author), Kim Young 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	What to Say to Death 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	a pressure press collection by Ron Androla (Goodreads Author), Cheryl A. Townsend (Goodreads Author), John Korn 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Poets and Artists (O&S) Self-Portrait Issue by Bob Hicok, Pris Campbell (Goodreads Author), John Korn 5.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Ocho #29 by John Korn, Ron Androla (Goodreads Author), William Stobb (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	PoetsArtists #25 by Jill Alexander Essbaum, Geof Huth (Goodreads Author), Ron Androla (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Poets and Artists (July 2010): The South Florida Issue by Emma Trelles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ron Androla (Goodreads Author), Edward Nudelman (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	MiPOesias (Vol 24, Issue 1) by J.A. Tyler (Goodreads Author), Ron Androla (Goodreads Author), Adam Fieled 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Poets and Artists by Howard Tullman, Anselm Berrigan, Ron Androla (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	OCHO #1 by Jenni Russell, Amy King (Goodreads Author), Didi Menendez (Goodreads Author) (editor) 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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Ron gave to: Ocho #29 by John Korn	My rating:
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Ron gave to: Poets and Artists (O&S) Self-Portrait Issue by Bob Hicok recommended to Ron by: randrola@gmail.com read in September, 2009	My rating:
this is an astonishing issue. i am rarely astonished.
Sep 14, 2009 05:16pm · see review
Ron gave to: O&S (Summer 2009): Poets And Artists (Volume 2) by Alyssa Monks	My rating:
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Ron made a comment on his review of ALL OF MARK HARTENBACH'S WORK "mark has published a massive symphony of books over the years. he has been unrecognized & underapprectiated, in my opinion -- i think he has stopp...more "
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Ron gave to: ALL OF MARK HARTENBACH'S WORK by Mart Hartenbach recommended for: the world-wide educational system read in January, 1998	My rating:
Oct 19, 2008 09:13pm
Ron gave to: Oranges & Sardines Issue 3, Winter 2008 by Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell, John Korn, Drew Ernst, Scott G. Brooks, Ignat Ignatov, William Rose	My rating:
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