New and Selected Poems

by Ron Padgett

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.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

"I will
Go down and make myself
A peanut butter, blueberry
And banana effigy of Hitler.
That'll show the bastards."

[Samuel DiSalle · Rating 5 out of 5]

i wanted to read more of padgett's poetry after seeing the movie "paterson", and this is a great collection, i think. very funny and warm and human. one i really loved is called "cufflinks".

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many very good poems. Not really as memorable for me.

[Cynthia Arrieu-King]

On the one hand, I love the seeing, open, playful, life-filled aspects of these poems and how easily they shine up the regular trash of life into something better. I kept being startled by all the sexist and rapey remarks which at first seemed purposely dark or absurd but then became so numerous, I just stopped reading the book. That's disappointing as I really do like a lot of these poems so much.