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ISBN: 1566891280

ISBN13: 9781566891288

You Never Know

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Book Overview

You never know what to expect from Ron Padgett, a poet full of delightful surprises and discoveries. This witty new collection glides from comic to elegiac to lyrical, in celebrations of fairy tales, friendship, cubism, birds, lullabies, spirituality, Dutch painting, and the magic of everyday life, all rendered in artful conversational American. Marketing Plans: Co-op available National author tour to include New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, and Milwaukee National print advertising Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa in 1942. With Ted Berrigan and others, Padgett reinvented the New York School of poetry in the mid-1960s. Also a distinguished translator of modern French poetry, he has published 15 books of his own, including Great Balls of Fire , and has been honored by a Guggenheim and an American Academy of Arts and Letters poetry award. Padgett lives in New York City. Also Available Great Balls of Fire TP $8.95 0-918273-80-3 CUSA This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1566891280

ISBN13:9781566891288

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:Coffee House Press

Length:96 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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Rated 4 stars
delicate and witty poetry by Ron Padgett

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 23, 2009

The book contains delicate and witty poems. It was also a pleasant surprise to receive my order earlier than expected.

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Rated 5 stars
How can ever Padgett book be his best?!

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 29, 2002

Since the 1960s, Ron Padgett has been writing some of the best, and funniest, and most challenging poetry in the English language. My favourite of his books have been The Tulsa Kid and Toujours L'Amour, but I've loved everything he's written (even the small-press oddity Poems I Guess I Wrote). His direct language, his enthusiasm for goofiness, his smart playfulness -- all this stuff moves me and inspires me. But with You Never...

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Rated 5 stars
How can every book be Padgett's best?

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 26, 2002

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Rated 5 stars
Hallmarked with a very special wit

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 5, 2002

The poetry of Ron Padgett is hallmarked with a very special wit and an artfully conversational American approach. You Never Know offers a complete spectrum of his style, which has a penchant for surprise and discovery, all in service to acknowledging the simple magic of everyday life. Poet As Immortal Bird: A second ago my heart thump went/and I thought, "This would be a bad time/to have a heart attack and die, in the/middle...

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