Resultaten voor 'ron padgett'
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Joe Brainard: I Remember
A small but real American classic.
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How to Be Perfect
Required reading for humans.
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Pink Dust
Ron Padgett is one of America's best-known and most acclaimed poets. Admired by John Ashbery, Jim Jarmusch, and Anne Waldman, his poems have moved and delighted generations of readers with their inventiveness, their gentle humor, and above all their ability to elicit wonder. These qualities are as evident as ever in Pink Dust, whose title refers to the residue from all the author's erasers, swept away or blown into the air. Like that dust, this is a book of memories rubbing up against the present. Its poignant reflections on old age shimmer with all the insouciance of youth.
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Dot
"In a new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside even the smallest experiences. In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generations of readers. Guided by curiosity and built on wit, generosity of spirit, and lucid observation, Dot shows how any experience, no matter how mundane, can lead to a poem that flares like gentle fireworks in the night sky of the reader's mind"--
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How to Be Perfect
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 Führer durch das weitläufige Gebiet der Lebenskunst. Mit nichts anderem als dem ¿gewöhnlichen Leben¿ beschäftigt, tut er souverän so, als gäbe es nichts Ungewöhnlicheres als vom durch und durch ¿Gewöhnlichen¿ zu schreiben. 14 deutschsprachige Autorinnen und Autoren sind Jan Röhnerts Einladung gefolgt, auf Padgetts Universalpoesie mit ebenso persönlichen und konkreten Lebensmaximen zu antworten: Marcel Beyer, Carolin Callies, Matthias Göritz, Durs Grünbein, Nancy Hünger, Dagmara Kraus, Nadja Küchenmeister & Matthias Kniep, Annette Pehnt, Norbert Scheuer, Julia Schoch, Tom Schulz, Hans Thill, Ron Winkler, Ulf Stolterfoht und einer Variation avant la lettre Peter Handke.
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Big Cabin
Contemplative, wry, profound observations from one of the greatest masters of contemporary poetry.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.
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Motor Maids Across America
"On one hand, the book is a quick read, and yet what Padgett does with his sentences is to be savored ... He takes a deep pleasure in the words, their sounds and variable meanings ... All of it is marked by the ease of Padgett's writing, his unrivaled directness." -John Yau, Hyperallergic 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 of grand vistas. Unprepared for the ensuing plane crash, a stolen car, a trip to The Singing Ranch, encounters with cryptic individuals, a painting by Henri Rousseau, a train robber on the lam, an Italian village located in California, a talking door and the assistance of cowboys, Blaise Cendrars, Indians and mountain outlaws who turn into statues, the redoubtable Motor Maids are compelled to dream even larger.Ron Padgett (born 1942) grew up in Tulsa and has lived mostly in New York City since 1960. Among his many honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters poetry award, the Shelley Memorial Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Padgett's How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry. His Collected Poems won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Los Angeles Times prize for the best poetry book of 2013. In addition to being a poet, he is the translator of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars. His poems appeared in Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson.
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Zone
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 the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. The Washington Post has said, "No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett's translations."
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Alone and Not Alone
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 "The World of Us": Don't go around all daythinking about life—doing so will raise a barrierbetween you and its instants.You need those instantsso you can be in them,and I need you to be in them with mefor I think the world of usand the mysterious barricadesthat make it possible.
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How Long
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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Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy 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
Flash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life, constructing a complex philosophical vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has written about his own work: "It is possible to see eternity-to see everything-in a teacup or a sweet wrapper. Everything in the world is poetry." An eighteen-year-old college girlwalks to class on a spring morningrosy cheeks long legsinside a wool skirtonly a small wild part revealedbeautiful girl chest held higha cup of tea between her handsa book beneath her elbowcrossing the flower gardenlooking straight aheadshe is rushing to catcha philosophy class Yu Jian, born in 1954 in Kunming, China, is a poet, author, and documentary film director. He began writing poetry in the early 1970s, influenced both by classical Chinese poetry and modern Western writers such as Walt Whitman. Yu Jian is a major figure among the "Third Generation Poets" who came after the "Misty Poetry" movement of the early 1980s. Wang Ping's books include two collections of poetry, The Magic Whip and Of Flesh & Spirit, and the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. Her novel The Last Communist Virgin was winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award in the category of Novel & Short Story and the 2007 Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in the category of Poetry/Prose. Ron Padgett's translations include Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems, Guillaume Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated, and, with Bill Zavatsky, Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Padgett was named officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
€ 14,50