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Set in the heart of 1970s Kansas, Bull in the Ring is about a boy who wears his dead father's army jacket, does his best to cope with the string of losers and abusers brought home by his mother, and struggles to stay in school, trying to win the approval of buddies and bullies. Armed with poetry and wit, Danny keeps moving forward. Will he find direction before he reaches the end of this dead-end road life has handed to him?

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Set in the heart of 1970s Kansas, Bull in the Ring is about a boy who wears his dead father's army jacket, does his best to cope with the string of losers and abusers brought home by his mother, and struggles to stay in school, trying to win the approval of buddies and bullies. Armed with poetry and wit, Danny keeps moving forward. Will he find direction before he reaches the end of this dead-end road life has handed to him?
Autorenporträt
Al Ortolani is the Manuscript Editor for Woodley Press in Topeka, Kansas, and has directed a memoir writing project for Vietnam veterans across Kansas in association with the Library of Congress and Humanities Kansas. He is a 2019 recipient of the Rattle Chapbook Series Award. He has been a Kansas Notable Book recipient in 2017 and 2021. His poetry has appeared in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry and in Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. After 43 years of teaching English in public schools, he currently lives a life without bells and fire drills in the Kansas City area with his wife Sherri and their rescue dog Stanley.