Research Catalog

Title

How long / by Ron Padgett.

Author

Padgett, Ron, 1942-

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

88 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Ron Padgett's title poem asks: "How long do you want to go on being the person you think you are? / How Long, a city in China." With the arrival of his first grandchild, Padgett becomes even more inspired to confront the eternal mysteries in poems with a wry, rueful honesty that comes only with experience, in his case sixty-eight years of it. 'I never thought, forty years ago, taping my poems into a notebook, that one day the tape would turn yellow, grow brittle, and fall off and that I'd find myself on hands and knees groaning as I picked the pieces up off the floor one by one'." -- Publisher.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• American poetry.
• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Scotch Tape Body -- The Death Deal -- Grasshopper -- Kit -- The Curvature of Royalty -- Urn Burial -- We Three Kings -- Death -- Walking with Walt -- Inaction of Shoes -- The Center of Gravity -- Earl Grey -- Material World -- What Are You On? -- The Hatchet Man -- Spots -- Happy Birthday to Us -- On Decency -- Irish Song by an English Man -- I'll Get Back to You -- Thinking about a Cloud -- Crush -- I Remember Lost Things -- The Apples in Chandler's Valley -- How Long -- The Joke -- Anniversary Waltz -- An Air for Sir John Suckling -- The Best Think I Did -- Statue Man -- Snake Oil Song -- From Dante -- Snowman -- The Japanese Garden -- The Song of René Descartes -- Drat -- The Hole in the Wall -- The Red Pool -- The Brick of Bach -- Flame Name -- The Coat Hanger -- The Great Wall of China -- Children's Story.

ISBN

9781566892568 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010038005

OCLC

664353041

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library