{"product_id":"somello","title":"Some Love Poems Have Happy Endings, Others Not So Much, by Lou Orfanella","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLove has been a topic of poetry since the birth of the genre. It has been written about in works that form the canon of required reading for a liberal education. It has been the basis for countless clichéd messages in generations of greeting cards. Love tugs at the heartstrings and guides the human condition, often kicking logic to the curb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome Love Poems Have Happy Endings, Others Not So Much\u003c\/em\u003e considers love from different angles and respects its many facets. Opposites attract as well as those with much in common. Unhappy results have as much to teach as the traditionally sought after happy endings. Happy or sad, everlasting or fleeting, in the end love is all we really have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLou Orfanella, a New York based teacher, writer, and workshop facilitator who has also worked as a broadcast and print journalist, is the author of more than twenty books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and drama including most recently \u003cem\u003eSingle A Serenade: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRadical Acceptance: Poems, Unexpected Guests: Poems That Arrived Without Warning\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fundamental Things Apply: A Novella\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNew York Dispatches: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. He has published over 100 articles, essays, columns, reviews and poems in numerous regional and national magazines, newspapers, and journals including \u003cem\u003eThe New York Daily News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCollege Bound\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEnglish Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorld Hunger Year Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiscoveries\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeacher Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNew York Teacher\u003c\/em\u003e. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University. He has presented scores of public readings of his work and offers individual and group writing workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lou Orfanella","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50083046195515,"sku":"SOMELLO","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50083046228283,"sku":"SOMELLOe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/happyfront.png?v=1741313726","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/somello","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}