Poetry. Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. A member of the Tulsa School of Poets, he received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, the same year he won the Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright. Since 1969 he has been associated with Teachers & Writers Collaborative and numerous Poets in the Schools programs. In 1974-1976 he worked as a Writer in the Community in Lancaster, South Carolina. Since then he has directed the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in ...
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Poetry. Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. A member of the Tulsa School of Poets, he received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, the same year he won the Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright. Since 1969 he has been associated with Teachers & Writers Collaborative and numerous Poets in the Schools programs. In 1974-1976 he worked as a Writer in the Community in Lancaster, South Carolina. Since then he has directed the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York, which has been home base for him, his wife and son. His publications include "Great Balls of Fire," "Toujours l'amour," and "Triangles in the Afternoon" (poetry), "Bean Spasms," "The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron, " and "Antlers in the Treetops" (collaborations), as well as translations of Apollinaire, Duchamp, Cendrars and Larbaud. He is co-director of Full Court Press.
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Add this copy of Tulsa Kid to cart. $9.95, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Z Press.
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Near Fine. Poetry Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Creaseless covers and spine, Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 131 pages with comics and drawings. Publishers page shows N.A.P. Poet, editor, and translator Ron Padgett was born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a high-school student he founded the avant-garde literary journal The White Dove Review with his friends and fellow students Joe Brainard and Dick Gallup. Soliciting and publishing work from poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, the magazine ran for five issues. Padgett moved to New York City in 1960 to attend Columbia College. Awarded a Fulbright in 1965, Padgett spent a year in Paris studying and translating French poetry. He eventually made his home in New York City's East Village and became a vital part of the Second Generation New York School Poets, a group that included Ted Berrigan, Brainard, and others. Padgett is the author of over 20 collections of poetry, including Great Balls of Fire (1969, reissued 1990); You Never Know (2001); How to Be Perfect (2007); How Long (2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Collected Poems (2013), winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. He has collaborated with the poet Ted Berrigan and the artists Jim Dine and George Schneeman. Of Padgett's work, poet David Lehman wrote in Poetry: "The great legacy of French Surrealist and Dadaist writing makes itself felt in his poems."Voice Literary Supplement contributor Karen Volkman, reviewing Padgett's 1995 New and Selected Poems, commented: This is a fine sampling of a restless, hilarious, and haunting lyric intelligence, a ‘phony' whose variable voices form a rare and raucous orchestration: the real thing.
Add this copy of Tulsa Kid [Signed, Inscribed] to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by Diamond Hollow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Andes, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Z Press.
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VG+ First Edition softcover, one of a thousand copies, 131 pages. Just some age-toning to covers & a faint crease to front cover along spine. This copy is warmly inscribed by the poet to his friend the painter Duncan Hannah, 1952-2022 (who is identified here only by his residential address), & signed & dated-see image. Also, inserted into the book are two small notebook tear-sheets with Padgett poems written out in pen by Hannah--The Electric Eeel Chocolate Milk, both of which appear in Tulsa Kid. Finally, also laid in are 3 tear sheets from an unidentified magazine of an interview with Padgett by Matthew Burgess, folded in half.
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