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Very Collected Poems

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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.

Book Details

Publisher:
Coffee House Press
ISBN:
9781566897433
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
1056
Authors:
Ron Padgett
Published Date:
2025-11-18
Language:
English

About Ron Padgett

Associated with the second generation of the New York School, Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and studied with Kenneth Koch at Columbia University. His more than twenty collections include Great Balls of Fire (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969), How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Seven of his poems appear in Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film Paterson.

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