
New and Selected Poems
By Ron Padgett
1995
First Published
4.12
Average Rating
112
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A collection of poems in unrhymed verse and prose deals with subjects from Woody Woodpecker and chocolate milk to Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Avg Rating
4.12
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66
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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.