You never know : poems / by Ron Padgett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padgett, Ron, 1942-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2001]

Summary:

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.

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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.

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Contents:

Morning 1

Glow 2

To Myself 3

Advice to Young Writers 4

The Missing Lips 5

Not Particularly 6

Fairy Tale 7

Jay 8

Sudden Flashes 9

J & J 10

For a Moment 11

Fixation 12

My Son the Greek 13

Small Pond 14

Amsterdam 15

What to Do 16

Rectangle Obligation 17

Embraceable You 18

Obit Backlash 19

The Happy Whistler 21

The Austrian Maiden 22

Mountains Are a Feeling 23

The County Fair 24

The Abyss 25

The Saint Lurches 26

Voice and Fur 27

Poem in a Manner Not My Own 28

The Sweeper 29

Listening to Joe Read 30

Bluebird 31

Hug 32

Bobbie and Me on Bicycles 33

And Oil 34

Poem 35

The Drummer Boy 36

Medieval Salad Dive 37

The Drink 38

You Never Know 39

A Prescription for a Happy Sort of Melancholy 40

Metaphor of the Morning 41

Toybox 42

To Anne Porter 43

The Future of Your Name 44

A Rude Mechanical 45

Poet as Immortal Bird 46

The Idea of Rotterdam 47

Exceptions to the Rule 48

Crossing the Alps 49

Think and Do 50

My Trip to Italy 51

Haiku 52

The Periscope 53

Little Ode to Suzanne Farrell 54

Bob Creeley Breakthrough 56

How to Become a Tree in Sweden 57

Aquamarine Fantasy 58

Frisky 59

Elegy 60

Feathers 61

Flash Photo 62

Old Song 63

The Poet's Breakfast 64

I Guess 65

Lullaby 66

The Song of Grandpa 67

Music 68

Wisconsin 69

Bang Goes the Literature 70

The Lips of the Dairymen 71

Morning Poem 72

Album 73

The Love Cook 74

Nuts 75

When George Calls 76

And Was It Leeds? 77

People with Heads 78

Pensee juste 79

Ape Man 80

The Woodpecker Today 81

Little Elegy 82

Sacred Heart 83

Amy 84.

ISBN:

1566891280

OCLC:

48495179