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Full Title:

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Contributors:

By (Author) Ron Padgett

ISBN:

9781566896559

Publisher:

Coffee House Press

Imprint:

Coffee House Press

Publication Date:

7th February 2023

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

811.54

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

120

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 228mm

Description

In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that dont even existand then they do.

shows how any experience, no matter how mundane, can lead to a poem that flares like gentle fireworks in the night sky of the readers mind.

Reviews

Wonderful, generous, funny poetry. John Ashbery Reading Padgett one realizes that playfulness and lightness of touch are not at odds with seriousness. . . . As is often the case, leave it to the comic writer to best convey our tragic predicament. Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books For decades now, Ron Padgett has built up a body of work that, like the tenderly deadpan ballads of Jonathan Richman, has at its heart a sort of wry, pickled innocence. . . . The charm of his linesand their power, because his work has a way of disarming you and pulling you in again and againoften comes from his allergy to anything pretentious or even poetic. He makes plain niceness look like the most radical stance of all. Jeff Gordiner, The New York Times Padgetts plainspoken, wry poems deliver their wisdom through a kind of connoisseurship of absurdity. The New Yorker Deeply pleasing to read. The Paris Review I can think of no other poet Ive read over the past 40 years who embodies Williamss spirit and his great hearts aesthetic. . . . Im willing to put money on Padgett, in two or three generations (it takes that long) to be counted among the best poets of his generation, to be counted among the best American poets, period. Thomas Lux, Poetry Society of Americas William Carlos Williams Award Forty-five years after Great Balls of Fire, Padgetts poems still fuel our capacity for joyful incomprehensibility and subsequent mobility of thought. Poetry Padgetts poems are so playful, self-mocking and eager to please that it would be easy to overlook their craft, not to mention the depth and sincerity of the emotions they convey. What animates [his work] is the tension between the buoyancy of its language and the gravity of its subject. The Washington Post Every page is a good time. . . . Sweet, hilarious, moving and mind-bogglingly imaginative. This book is for anyone who likes writing or who thinks its interesting to have a mind (or simply a forehead). Richard Hell, The Wall Street Journal These poems mingle the nervy sophistication and cosmopolitan experimentalism of a thriving international avant-garde art tradition with a kind of hillbilly twang thats unmistakably American. Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle A twentieth-century Great who is still producing superlative verse today. . . . And thats exactly what Padgett is: a virtuoso. Seth Abramson, Huffington Post Padgetts sense of romantic joy is undiminished, as is his thoughtfulness about language and the ways in which time changes meaning, and sense can morph into eloquent absurdity. Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly The poet makes superlative use of the directive writing consciousnessoften automatic pilotto tap the unconscious for memory, vision, emotion, and the unexpected and indefinable. The poems speak backwards and forwards in time, to self, to family and friends, to poetic technique, to the birds caged in the chest. It is so lovely. Alice Notley Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder. Robert Creeley The Ron Padgett of yore is still with usas charming, unpretentious, and surprising as everbut there is a new Ron Padgett in this book as well: a poet of heartbreaking tenderness and ever-deepening wisdom. Paul Auster Ron Padgetts poems sing with absolutely true pitch . . . agile and lucid and glad to be alive. James Tate Always discovering new pleasures and reviving old ones, full of what, in Frank OHaras phrase, still makes a poem a surprise, Ron Padgetts poems, among those of our times, are in the small company of authentic works of art. Kenneth Koch Ron Padgett has that Lubitsch toucha whimsical grace that is full of wisdom and self-possession complete with mother-wit and, in his case, American invention. Peter Gizzi

Author Bio

Ron Padgetts How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA). He has also received the Shelley Memorial Award and the Frost medal from the PSA. His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrarss Complete Poems. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmuschs film Paterson. New York City has been his home base since 1960.

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