
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.
Books

Collected Poems
2013

How to Be Perfect
2007

The Big Something
1990

Big Cabin
2019

How Long
2011

The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
1987

Alone and Not Alone
2015

Great Balls of Fire
1969

Oklahoma Tough
My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers
2003

Joe
A Memoir of Joe Brainard
2004

Poems I Guess I Wrote
2001

You Never Know
2002

Supernatural Overtones
1990

Dot
2022

Contemporary American Poetry
1962

New and Selected Poems
1995

Ted
A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan
1993