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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781567920383
ISBN: 1567920381
Label: David R Godine
Manufacturer: David R Godine
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: August 01, 1995
Publisher: David R Godine
Studio: David R Godine
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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, Triangles in the Afternoon, and other highly acclaimed books, stands alongside his fellow New York School associates John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler as a major voice of American modernism. His work runs the gamut from popular humor to intellectual elegance to wild richochets of the imagination. The heady circumvolutions of his poems are nevertheless surprising and frequently breathtaking in their ability to blend comedy and pathos in a graceful, mercurial lyricism.
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It is characteristic of Padgett's modesty that this *Selected* is about as long as many of his other books; it is characteristic of his generosity that the volume is so satisfying, seems so capacious despite crossing the wire at well under 120 pp. One reason to buy this book is that so much of Padgett's ouevre has crawled into the world under tiny, independent auspices that can't keep him on the shelves; Godine is an appropriate middle ground -- good at keeping books in print -- but that's no ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781567920383
ISBN: 1567920381
Label: David R Godine
Manufacturer: David R Godine
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: August 01, 1995
Publisher: David R Godine
Studio: David R Godine