Ron Padgett - Böcker

This bestselling reference guide includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms. Defined in alphabetical order, each entry is allotted 1-7 pages with examples and histories of-and ideas for using-each form.

Läs mer »

The Straight Line 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 Ro...

Läs mer »

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 of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixi...

Läs mer »

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 in Teachers & Write...

Läs mer »

The 72 informal essays in the two volumes of Educating the Imagination were selected from the very best articles in Teachers & Writers magazine over the past 17 years. Fifty-five creative writers present a multitude of ideas and techniques for...

Läs mer »

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 across the country. Lessons on diversity, Greek epic and non-cl...

Läs mer »

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, lyric poems, plays, stories, and novels, from...

Läs mer »

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

Läs mer »

Art. LGBT Studies. From 1963 through 1978, Joe Brainard created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified by the incongruity of ...

Läs mer »

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, spiritual...

Läs mer »

"When someone we love dies, most of us do something to keep them from completely vanishing. We summon up memories of them, we talk about them, we visit their graves, we treasure photographs of them, we dream about them, and we cry, and for th...

Läs mer »

"When someone we love dies, most of us do something to keep them from completely vanishing. We summon up memories of them, we talk about them, we visit their graves, we treasure photographs of them, we dream about them, and we cry, and for th...

Läs mer »

"Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder."-Robert Creeley Ron Padgett has reenergized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems, with exceptionally lucid and touching elegies, ...

Läs mer »

Ron Padgett's title poem asks: "How long do you want to go on being the person you think you are? / How Long, a city in China." With the arrival of his first grandchild, Padgett becomes even more inspired to confront the eternal mysterie...

Läs mer »

"Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think."--Mac Wellman The Banquet brings together 144 plays, ten screenplays, and fiv...

Läs mer »

"Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think."--Mac Wellman The Banquet brings together 144 plays, ten screenplays, and fiv...

Läs mer »

Gathering the work of more than fifty years, Ron Padgett's Collected Poems is the record of one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth-century American poetry. Padgett's poems reverberate with his reading and friendships, from Andrew Marvell to ...

Läs mer »

Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's Collected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) Alone and Not Alone offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light. From &...

Läs mer »

Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's Collected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) Alone and Not Alone offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light.From &q...

Läs mer »

"Make eye contact with a tree." "Do not practice cannibalism." "Wear comfortable shoes." "Sing, every once in a while." "In later life, become a mystic." Offbeat, warm, and funny, Ron Padgett's pre...

Läs mer »

Written over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in new, crystal-clear light.

Läs mer »

In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that don't even exist-and then they do. In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generati...

Läs mer »

In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that don't even exist-and then they do.In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generatio...

Läs mer »

Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the work of France's greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire's poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to th...

Läs mer »

An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influenc...

Läs mer »

A fascinating account of Frank O'Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York, told through notes, images, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson. Poet and art critic Bill Berkson (1939-2016) had planned for many years to write a lengthy study...

Läs mer »

Jim Jarmusch lässt in seinem Kultfilm Paterson den dichtenden Busfahrer Paterson - die Hauptfigur - Gedichte von Ron Padgett in sein Heft notieren: »Beim Drehbuchschreiben wusste ich schon, dass ich Gedichte von Ron Padgett verwenden wollte ... ...

Läs mer »

Ron Padgetts "How to Be Perfect" entwirft in 99 ebenso kuriosen wie erhellenden und zupackenden Sätzen ein amüsantes Programm des gelingenden Lebens Als ein Poet, der das Tiefsinnige mit dem Einfachen verbindet, ist Padgett der ideale Fü...

Läs mer »