"Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a
provocatively persistent wonder."-Robert Creeley Ron Padgett has
reenergized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems,
with exceptionally lucid and touching elegies, and with imaginative
and action-packed homages to American culture and visual art. He
has paid tribute to Woody Woodpecker and the West, to friends and
collaborators, to language and cowslips, to beautiful women and
chocolate milk, to paintings and small-time criminals. His poems
have always imparted a contagious sense of joy. In these new poems,
Padgett hasn't forsaken his beloved Woody Woodpecker, but he has
decided to heed the canary and sound the alarm. Here, he asks,
"What makes us so mean?" And he really wants to know. Even as these
poems cajole and question, as they call attention to what has been
lost and what we still stand to lose, they continue to champion
what makes sense and what has always been worth saving. "Humanity,"
Padgett generously (and gently) reminds us, still "has to take it
one step at a time." Ron Padgett is a celebrated translator,
memoirist, teacher, and, as Peter Gizzi says, "a thoroughly
American poet, coming sideways out of Whitman, Williams, and New
York Pop with a Tulsa twist." His poetry has been translated into
more than a dozen languages and has appeared in The Best American
Poetry, Poetry 180, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American
Poetry, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and on Garrison
Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. Visit his website at
www.ronpadgett.com.
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