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Great Balls of Fire
Reviews
New Letters:
“A landmark of the ‘New York School of Poetry.’”
San Francisco Chronicle:
“Audacious, ingenious, and lively . . . disarming, constantly innovative, and totally charming.”
Rolling Stock:
“Refreshingly untraditional.”
Canada New Pages:
“Great Balls of Fire was [Padgett’s] first full-length poetry collection, and its reissue more than 20 years along restores to our shelves a work of great humor and acrobatics.”
Harvard Book Review:
“Twenty some years have not dulled the bright brassiness of Padgett’s poems. Nor has his daring been absorbed into the general poetry culture. . . . It’s a tonic.”
What critics said about Great Balls of Fire in 1969:
Library Journal:
“Tremendous skill and delicate thought and basic intelligence.”
Kirkus Reviews:
“A sustained virtuoso performance.”
The Yale Review:
“Padgett’s volume is a work of wit, crackling and inventive, and I found myself grinning constantly while I was reading it.”
Dave Lehman, Poetry:
“The great legacy of French surrealist and Dadaist writing, so vital to Koch and Ashbery, its American inheritors, makes itself felt in these poems.”
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