Great Balls of Fire
By Ron Padgett
1969
First Published
4.07
Average Rating
86
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A reissue of the New York School poet's 1969 collection. "Padgett's volume is a work of wit, crackling and inventive."— Yale Review
Avg Rating
4.07
Number of Ratings
85
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Author
Ron Padgett
Author · 17 books
Ron Padgett is a poet and translator whose Collected Poems won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2014 Los Angeles Times Prize for the best poetry book. Padgett has translated the poetry of Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Valery Larbaud, and Blaise Cendrars.
