Very Collected Poems
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Very Collected Poems

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eBook - ePub

Very Collected Poems

About this book

Over sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry.

Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett’s Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s oeuvre—newly updated since the sold-out first edition of 2013. Padgett’s poems reverberate with his love of poetry, his musings on artists and musicians from Andrew Marvell to Woody Guthrie to his personal friendships with Kenneth Koch and Joe Brainard, alongside his poems involving family and the magic of just being alive. By turns imaginative and witty, and then simple and direct, Padgett’s mercurial work offers readers the pleasure of his surprising curiosity and generous spirit.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. In Advance of the Broken Arm (1964)
  6. From Great Balls of Fire (1969)
  7. Toujours L’amour (1976)
  8. From Tulsa Kid (1979)
  9. Triangles in the Afternoon (1979)
  10. The Big Something (1990)
  11. From New & Selected Poems (1995)
  12. You Never Know (2002)
  13. From Poems I Guess I Wrote (2001)
  14. How to be Perfect (2007)
  15. How Long (2011)
  16. Poem and other Poems: Uncollected (1960-2004)
  17. Alone and not Alone (2015)
  18. Big Cabin (2019)
  19. Dot (2022)
  20. Author’s Notes and Acknowledgments
  21. Index of Titles
  22. Index of First Lines
  23. Funder Acknowledgments
  24. The Publisher’s Circle of Coffee House Press
  25. About the Author