BlazeVOX Books & Notre Dame Press
FAKE NEWS POEMS
BlazeVOX BOOKs
"It’s an anchor in unsure times, an achievement we should all applaud and learn from.”
- Jared Yates Sexton
Author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: a Story of American Rage
Reviews & Features
UNDERDAYS
University of Notre Dame Press
2015 Sandeen Prize Winner
"In dense, often hauntingly musical verse, Ott interrogates our wide broken world, from Afghanistan to Los Angeles, with the unity of a singular, relentless voice."
—Dan O’Brien, author of War Reporter and Scarsdale
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Collaborative Poetry
YANKEE BROADCAST NETWORK
John F. Buckley & Martin Ott
Brooklyn Arts Press
"Surely there's never been a better book of poetry about television."
—Campbell McGrath, author of In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys
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POETS' GUIDE TO AMERICA
John F. Buckley & Martin Ott
Brooklyn Arts Press
"You've stumbled on the best travelogue you'll ever find...a book for the ages, and for our age and place."
—Laura Kasischke, author Space, in Chains
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C&R Press
LESSONS IN CAMOUFLAGE
C&R Press, 2018
"Ott's great gift in this collection is to make the familiar seen in all its depth and complexity. This book takes readers fully and vividly into the inner life of a young military recruit, and then later, a father, and beyond that, a grieving son"
—Kathryn Nuernberger author of The End of Pink
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CAPTIVE
C&R Press
2011 De Novo Prize Winner
“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.”
—Richard Garcia, author of The Flying Garcias
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