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You Never Know: Poems
Contributor(s): Padgett, Ron (Author)
ISBN: 1566891280     ISBN-13: 9781566891288
Publisher: Coffee House Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2002
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Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 2001052945
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 7.02" W x 9.96" (0.43 lbs) 96 pages
 
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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.

Marketing Plans:
Co-op available
National author tour to include New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, and Milwaukee
National print advertising

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.

Also Available
Great Balls of Fire
TP $8.95 0-918273-80-3 CUSA