Alone and not alone

✍ Scribed by Padgett, Ron

• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 108
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 day
thinking about life—
doing so will raise a barrier
between you and its instants.
You need those instants
so you can be in them,
and I need you to be in them with me
for I think the world of us
and the mysterious barricades
that make it possible.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: What Poem --
The Roman Numerals --
Butterfly --
Reality --
The Chinese Girl --
Smudges --
It Takes Two --
The First Time --
Circles --
Grandpa Brushed His Teeth --
Coffee Man --
Where Is My Head? --
Survivor Guilt --
The Young Cougar --
Radio in the Distance --
Face Value --
The Plank and the Screw --102 Today --
The Pounding Rabbit --
Mountains and Songs --
It All Depends --
The Elevation of Ideals --
Birgitte Hohlenberg --
Pep Talk --
Preface to Philosophy --
You Know What --
A Bit about Bishop Berkeley --
The Step Theory --
My '75 Chevy --
For A --
Art Lessons --
A Few Ideas about Rabbits --
The Value of Discipline --
Pea Jacket --
The Ukrainian Museum --
The 1870s --
One Thing Led to Another --
The Rabbi with a Puzzle Voice --
Syntactical Structures --
The World of Us --
Curtain --
Homage to Meister Eckhart --
The Incoherent Behavior of Most Lawn Furniture --
This Schoolhouse Look --
The Street --
Paris Again --
London, 1815 --
Of Copse and Coppice --
Manifestation and Mustache --
Shipwreck in General --
French Art in the 1950s Three Poems in Honor of Willem de Kooning --
I Felt --
The Door to the River --
Zot --
Alone and Not Alone

✦ Subjects

Poetry.