“... The Orangery is one of [Gilbert] Sorrentino’s most memorable collections of poetry. Each poem includes the word ‘orange,’ the ‘preconceived constraint’ upon which the poet planned this book. Orange appears and reappears as a color, a fruit, a memory, an intrusion, a word seeking a rhyme, or an unexpected presence. On first publication William Bronk wrote, ‘In The Orangery Sorrentino makes things which are hard, gaudy, and sometimes scary. They are stark artifacts of our world. . . . They are made to last.’ The poem titled ‘King Cole’ takes two lines from a song that Nat King Cole made popular—’Wham! Bam! Alla Kazam!/ out of an orange colored sky’—and focuses on the nonsense words. ...”
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