You Never Know
by Ron Padgett
About this book
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, spirituality, Dutch painting, and the magic of everyday life, all rendered in artful conversational American. Marketing Co-op availableNational author tour to include New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, and MilwaukeeNational print advertising Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa in 1942. With Ted Berrigan and others, Padgett reinvented the New York School of poetry in the mid-1960s. Also a distinguished translator of modern French poetry, he has published 15 books of his own, including Great Balls of Fire , and has been honored by a Guggenheim and an American Academy of Arts and Letters poetry award. Padgett lives in New York City. Also AvailableGreat Balls of FireTP $8.95 0-918273-80-3 CUSA
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