A “New York School” weekend – This Tuesday sees the publication from Coffee House Press of Ron Padgett‘s wittily-titled Very Collected Poems. The original Collected Poems came out in November 2013 and it and its author are fulsomely profiled on The Allen Ginsberg Project – here
From the publisher’s web-site:
“Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett’s Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s oeuvre—newly updated since the sold-out first edition of 2013. Padgett’s poems reverberate with his love of poetry, his musings on artists and musicians from Andrew Marvell to Woody Guthrie to his personal friendships with Kenneth Koch and Joe Brainard, alongside his poems involving family and the magic of just being alive. By turns imaginative and witty, and then simple and direct, Padgett’s mercurial work offers readers the pleasure of his surprising curiosity and generous spirit.”
Here’s Ron recorded reading at the Poetry Project back in March (introduced by Anselm Berrigan), reading from his two most recent volumes Dick (a memoir of his friend, Dick Gallup) and Pink Dust, a brief, delightful New York Review Books collection.