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It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size...

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Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world.


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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett

Born: June 17, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award.
Known for:
  1. How to Be Perfect (2007)
  2. Collected Poems (2013)
  3. Oklahoma Tough (2003)
  4. Alone and Not Alone (2015)

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