Alone and Not Alone, Paperback

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 daythinking about life doing so will raise a barrierbetween you and its instants. You need those instantsso you can be in them, and I need you to be in them with mefor I think the world of usand the mysterious barricadesthat make it possible.""