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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9781566892032
ISBN: 1566892031
Label: Coffee House Press
Manufacturer: Coffee House Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: September 01, 2007
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Studio: Coffee House Press
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"Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder."-Robert Creeley
Ron Padgett has reenergized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems, with exceptionally lucid and touching elegies, and with imaginative and action-packed homages to American culture and visual art. He has paid tribute to Woody Woodpecker and the West, to friends and collaborators, to language and cowslips, to beautiful women and chocolate milk, to paintings and small-time criminals. His poems have always imparted a contagious sense of joy.
In these new poems, Padgett hasn't forsaken his beloved Woody Woodpecker, but he has decided to heed the canary and sound the alarm. Here, he asks, "What makes us so mean?" And he really wants to know. Even as these poems cajole and question, as they call attention to what has been lost and what we still stand to lose, they continue to champion what makes sense and what has always been worth saving. "Humanity," Padgett generously (and gently) reminds us, still "has to take it one step at a time."
Ron Padgett is a celebrated translator, memoirist, teacher, and, as Peter Gizzi says, "a thoroughly American poet, coming sideways out of Whitman, Williams, and New York Pop with a Tulsa twist." His poetry has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Poetry 180, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. Visit his website at www.ronpadgett.com.
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Well, it helps to be Ron Padgett to write a perfect book. Only a profound balance can produce such wheeling, such elegant levity, such pithy silliness. The long poems in this various, rich collection are astonishing, their invention never brags about itself, their goofiness is always paralleled with a deep humanity and underthrum of mortality. I think there should be a statue of Ron Padgett as big as the Statue of Liberty um somewhere!
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This for That
What will I have for breakfast?
I wish I had some plums
like the ones in Williams's poem.
He apologized to his wife
for eating them
but what he did not
do was apologize to those
who would read his poem
and also not be able to eat them.
That is why I like his poem
when I am not hungry.
Right now I do not like him
or his poem. This is just
to say that.
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If you like good poetry that speaks to all of us, is accessible, and moving, I recommend this book. Poetry is such a gift, it's like a short story in a few lines.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9781566892032
ISBN: 1566892031
Label: Coffee House Press
Manufacturer: Coffee House Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: September 01, 2007
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Studio: Coffee House Press