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      Pink Dust

      Ron Padgett

      A wry, poignant reflection on aging from one of America's finest and most admired poets.

      Admired by such luminaries as indie film director Jim Jarmusch and punk rock godfather Richard…

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      Great Balls of Fire

      Ron Padgett

      A reissue of the New York School poet’s 1969 collection. Padgett’s volume is a work of wit, crackling and inventive. – Yale Review

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      How to Be Perfect

      Ron Padgett

      Required reading for humans.

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      The Straight Line: Writings on Poetry and Poets

      Ron Padgett

      Brings together memoir, informal talks, autobiographical essays, unconventional book reviews, instructional pieces, imaginative speculations on the nature of reading, and poems about writing. What distinguishes these pieces is Ron Padgett’s…

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      You Never Know

      Ron Padgett

      Ron Padgett’s playful, nonchalant poetry is all delightful circumstance without the pomp.

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      Joe

      Ron Padgett

      Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.

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      How Long

      Ron Padgett

      Padgett’s witty poems ache to save the world surpassing moral superiority and infusing light, energy, and humor into everyday life.

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      Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers

      Ron Padgett

      Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out…

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      Motor Maids Across the Continent

      Ron Padgett

      Fiction. When the spinster Miss Helen Campbell sets off in a motorcar called The Comet with four high school girls, their cross-country car ride promises to fulfill their singular dreams…

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      The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms

      A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.

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      Dot

      Ron Padgett

      In a new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside even the smallest experiences.

      shows how any experience, no matter how mundane, can lead to a…

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      Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets

      Ron Padgett

      A lively and diverse collection of prose by an esteemed poet-teacher

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      Alone and Not Alone

      Ron Padgett

      Wry, generous, lucid poems from one of contemporary poetry’s living masters.

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      Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard

      Ron Padgett

      Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.

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      Big Cabin

      Ron Padgett

      Contemplative, wry, profound observations from one of the greatest masters of contemporary poetry.

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      Educating the Imagination: Essays & Ideas for Teachers & Writers Volume One

      This book contains 33 creative writers presenting ideas and techniques for exploring poetry writing, fiction writing, translation, practical aesthetics, creative reading and the imagination. Selected from the very best articles…

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      Educating the Imagination: Essays & Ideas for Teachers & Writers Volume Two

      In the two volumes of Educating The Imagination, fifty-five creative writers present a multitude of ideas and techniques for writing in the classroom: poetry writing; fiction writing; playwriting; writing about…

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      Old Faithful: 18 Writers Present Their Favorite Writing Assignments

      This popular book, in which writers share the assignments that never fail to inspire their students, covers a broad spectrum of genres pertinent to the core curricula of school boards…

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      Classics in the Classroom: Using Great Literature to Teach Writing

      Classics in the Classroom presents practical ways to use great literature to inspire imaginative writing by young people and others. The great literature discussed in this volume includes myths, epics…

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      Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #24)

      Kenneth Koch

      Kenneth Koch, in the words of editor Ron Padgett, wrote poetry that became a part of the mystery and pleasure of being alive. A center of the New York School…

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      Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan

      Ted Berrigan

      Letters illuminating a legendary literary love affair and the young artists who made 1960s New York the world’s cultural capital.

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      Flash Cards: Selected Poems from Yu Jian’s Anthology of Notes

      Yu Jian

      Selected work from one of the most influential and subversive contemporary Chinese poets.

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      Zone

      Guillaume Apollinaire,Peter Read,Ron Padgett

      Provides full range of Apollinaire’s poetry, from his traditional lyric verse to his avant-garde calligrammatic pieces. This volume includes an introduction by Peter Read, as well as a preface, helpful…

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      Complete Poems

      Blaise Cendrars

      Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as well as his art. This is an English translation of complete…

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      Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism

      Philippe Soupault

      A retrospective of crucial periods in modernism via portraits of its literary lions by the co-founder of the Surrealist Movement.

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      The Banquet: The Complete Plays, Films, and Librettos

      Kenneth Koch

      The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.

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      The Banquet: The Complete Plays, Films, and Librettos

      Kenneth Koch

      The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.

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      Joe Brainard - The Nancy Book

      Limited edition: a hand-pulled photo-lithograph of Joe Brainard’s mixed media collage Untitled (Nancy with gun) has been released in a numbered edition of 100, stamped by the estate of Joe…

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      I Remember

      Joe Brainard & Paul Auster,Paul Auster,Ron Padgett

      As autobiography, Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories (‘everything is interesting, sooner or later’) as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by…

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