Alone and Not Alone by Padgett, Ron (9781566894012)

Alone and Not Alone

by Padgett, Ron

Paperback - English

Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's Collected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) Alone and Not Alone offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light.

From "The World of Us"

Don't go around all day
thinking about life--
doing so will raise a barrier
between you and its instants.
You need those instants
so you can be in them,
and I need you to be in them with me
for I think the world of us
and the mysterious barricades
that make it possible.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1566894018

EAN

9781566894012

Publisher

COFFEE HOUSE PR

Publication Date

12 May 2015

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.16

Dimensions (cm)

22.4 x 15.0 x 1.0

About Author

Ron Padgett is a celebrated translator, memoirist, and "a thoroughly American poet, coming sideways out of Whitman, Williams, and New York Pop with a Tulsa twist" (Peter Gizzi). His poetry has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He was also a guest on Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion in 2009. Padgett is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and his most recent books include HOW LONG, HOW TO BE PE