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How to Be Perfect
Poems by Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett has reenergized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems, exceptionally lucid and touching elegies, and imaginative and action-packed homages to American culture and visual art. He has paid tribute to Woody Woodpecker and the West, to friends and collaborators, to language and cowslips, to beautiful women and chocolate milk, to paintings and small-time criminals.
In these new poems, Padgett hasn’t forsaken his beloved Woody Woodpecker, but he has decided to heed the canary and sound the alarm. The title poem opens with the advice “Get some sleep” and playfully reminds us that “the only perfect things are a 300 game in bowling and a 27-batter, 27-out / game in baseball.” From the silly to the profound and from the practical to the painfully obvious, this single poem tells us more about how to live and think than a library full of best selling self-help books.
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