Ron Padgett, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (84p) ISBN 978-1-56689-128-8
Coming through with clarity and charm in his seventh full collection, Padgett is the undisputed Zen master of the chicane, maintaining a perfectly readable and casual tone while turning meanings on a dime, or several dimes, on his way to a reliably...
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Ron Padgett, Author . Univ. of Oklahoma $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3509-0
"I was hit with an intense sensation, the pang of loving someone I don't really know," recalls poet Padgett, of a night nearly two decades ago, which sparked the writing of his father's biography. Alternately describing his...
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Ron Padgett, Author . Coffee House $30 (280p) ISBN 978-1-56689-159-2
Padgett (Oklahoma Tough
) offers an affectionate memoir of New York artist Joe Brainard, his friend for nearly four decades. It may be that very familiarity, though, that keeps Padgett from crafting a lean, cohesive narrative. While the author hints
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Ron Padgett, Author Bamberger Books $12 (104p) ISBN 978-0-917453-26-7
Natural heir to such founding New York School poets/art critics as Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, Padgett ( Great Balls of Fire ) offers, in his first prose collection, pieces that span 25 years. Many cover territory familiar to his loyal following:
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Ron Padgett, Author David R. Godine Publisher $14.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-56792-038-3
Like a bicycle messenger on the streets of Manhattan, Padgett (The Big Something) relies on sharp turns, attitude and an unfailing sense of balance rests on a keen awareness of mortality. Here, this veteran of the New York poetry scene delivers...
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Ron Padgett. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-56689-256-8
What sets Padgett apart from other accessible, humorous poets is his willingness to become both difficult and serious when a poem requires it. And while it is a commonplace that a poet's late books will focus on mortality, Padgett approaches the...
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Ron Padgett. Coffee House Press (Consortium, dist.), $44 (840p) ISBN 978-1-56689-342-8
Reviewed by David Lehman. Long a mainstay of the New York School’s second generation, Ron Padgett—the self-styled “Tulsa Kid,” as the title of one of his books has it—left Oklahoma to attend Columbia University and become a big city poet. He studied
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Ron Padgett. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (84p) ISBN 978-1-56689-401-2
Can a prolific poet produce a breakthrough book after age 70? Padgett might have done it here: the casual, almost diffident, jazz-influenced New York School poet, whose Collected Poems won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2013, follows up with a volume...
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Ron Padgett, illus. by Jason Novak. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-56689-455-5
Celebrated poet Padgett (Alone and Not Alone) teams up with cartoonist Novak to craft this delightful, moving assemblage of suggestions on how to get the most out of life and be a better human being. Padgett’s command of language, softhearted...
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Ron Padgett, Author, Ronald Padgett, Author University of Michigan Press $15.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-472-06726-8
Ron Padgett didn't know Blaise Cendrars or Vladimir Mayakovsky, but he did know Ted Berrigan and writes about them all, and many others, in The Straight Line: Writings on Poetry and Poets. Padgett (Selected Poems; Albanian Diary; etc.) joins the...
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Ron Padgett. Coffee House, $16.95 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-56689-655-9
New York School poet Padgett (Encore with Philosophy and Rectangle) returns with a breezy and nostalgic collection reflecting on the quotidian and the momentous. Some poems are made up of a dozen or so short lines, while others are meandering and...
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