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In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that donโt even existโand then they do. I...
Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry....
Ron Padgett's poems are remarkably clear, almost invisibly so, like a refreshing glass of cold water--poems in which he goes nit-picking with the OED,...
A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan
LC copy inscribed by the author: For Linda, with love, Ron....
Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's Collected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Pri...
Travel Writing. Cultural Studies. For one hot week in June of 1995, poet Ron Padgett toured little-known, isolated Albania, in the company of five fel...
Poems
A reissue of the New York School poet's 1969 collection. "Padgett's volume is a work of wit, crackling and inventive."--Yale Review...
Written over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in new, crystal-c...
(American Poets Project #24)
"Draws on the full range of the New York School-educated writer's body of poetry and offers insight into his transition from high-energy comic writing...
Required reading for humans....
Selected Prose
Literary Nonfiction. BLOOD WORK collects the best nonfiction prose works of celebrated poet and translator Ron Padgett. The sixteen pieces here range ...
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This is the definitive selection of work by one of the wittiest, most inventive poets currently writing. Ron Padgett, author of Great Balls of Fire, T...
LC copy inscribed by the author: for Burt, What? Another book Love, Ron....
Alphabetically arranged articles on 107 poets from around the world, accompanied by fifteen essays on various genres and schools of poetry....
From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I REMEMBER) created more than 100 works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and...
Writings on Poetry and Poets
A lively and diverse collection of prose by an esteemed poet-teacher...
Of this first edition of 500 copies ... printed June 29, 1990 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, twenty-six are lettered A-Z and signed by the author...
The Most Tragical Tragedy, that Ever was Tragediz'd by Any Company of Tragedians
Poetry. This book includes a gorgeoussuite of drawings by San Francisco artist Will Yackulic with poems by some of America's finest established and em...
What it Is, how to Do It, and why
This book aims to enlarge the possibilities of reading by suggesting ways to make reading more imaginative and by encouraging a new attitude toward th...
A Memoir of Joe Brainard
"This is Ron Padgett's memoir - the unlikely and true story of two childhood friends, one straight and one gay, who grew up in 1950s Oklahoma, surpris...
Selections from the Butts Collection at UCSD ...
Teachers' Manual
Intended for elementary level students, this book presents 12 writing ideas and several suggestions on how students can make a book using their writin...
Ein Gedicht von Ron Padgett (englisch / deutsch) mit 15 Variationen
Padgett's witty poems ache to save the world--surpassing moral superiority and infusing light, energy, and humor into everyday life....
A wry, poignant reflection on aging from one of America's finest and most admired poets. Admired by such luminaries as indie film director Jim Jarmusc...
Fiction. When the spinster Miss Helen Campbell sets off in a motorcar called "The Comet" with four high school girls, their cross-country car ride pro...
An Illustrated Guide
Human perfection, attainable in 99 easy steps in this quirky illustrated edition of Padgett's most beloved poem....
A fascinating account of Frank O'Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York, told through notes, images, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson....
My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers
An established poet recounts the life of his father, Wayne Padgett, who was not only a colorful, charming, and generous man, but also a high-ranking m...