About the Author
A former U.S. Army interrogator, Martin Ott currently lives in Los Angeles and still finds himself asking a lot of questions.
His fiction and poetry have appeared in more than 100 publications.
His book of poetry "Captive" won the 2011 De Novo Prize and will be published by C&R Press in 2012. "Poets' Guide to America" - co-written with John F. Buckley - will be published by Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012.
Martin has worked as a content marketer and copywriter in Los Angeles since moving there to attend the Masters of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. His writing blog http://writeliving.wordpress.com/ has drawn thousands of global visitors.
He has also optioned three screenplays, and is currently represented by Ken Atchity at AEI Entertainment to develop a project "Twain" about two brothers rafting down the Mississippi River.
CONTACT: ottpops@gmail.com BLOG: http://writeliving.wordpress.com/
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Books
CAPTIVE
Available Summer 2012
Martin Ott's premiere collection of poems is dark and dazzling. The speaker in Captive is like a captive himself, perhaps a former soldier or interrogator, held captive in memory, dreaming in feverish braids of time and place: the cold war, Iraq, Moscow, Mexico, and some places that are unnamed-the kind of places where men arrive manacled and hooded. A description of the Moscow subway is a love poem, a young man learns to drive in a cemetery. And yet light breaks through these poems like an 'alchemy of daybreak'. Like a father walking with his infant daughter on his chest in a baby-pack, passing through a gauntlet of smiles and warm greetings.
Richard Garcia, author of The Flying Garcias, Rancho Notorious and The Persistence of Objects
Sample Poem
POETS' GUIDE TO AMERICA
John F. Buckley & Martin Ott
Available Summer 2012
Brooklyn Arts Press
John Buckley and Martin Ott are extremely talented poets, schooled in their craft, who are already well on their way to the “A List” of their generation, and are thought by many—myself included—to be there already. They are as rich and meticulous in phrasing as “Language Poets,” but spare us the gratuitous obscurities associated with that school. They can produce a pantoum as readily as a pun. They make no bones about the seriousness of their prolific productions, even as they persist in entertaining us. This comprehensive collection will be on the shelves and in the hands of those readers who endeavor to chart the course of poetic art in our time. Give yourself the pleasure of their texts and of being among the first to recognize their importance.
Gerald Locklin, author of The Firebird Poems and Go West, Young Toad
Sample Poem
The Last Fortune Teller of Chicago - Evergreen Review