Ron Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has also received the Shelley Memorial Award and the Frost medal from the Poetry Society of America. His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars’s Complete Poems. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film Paterson. New York City has been his home base since 1960.
Publication date: November 10, 2026
Format: Trade Paperback
Dimensions: 5.5x8.5
Page Count: 264
ISBN: 9781566897709
Ron Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has also received the Shelley Memorial Award and the Frost medal from the Poetry Society of America. His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars’s Complete Poems. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film Paterson. New York City has been his home base since 1960.
“Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder.” —Robert Creeley
“Reading Padgett one realizes that playfulness and lightness of touch are not at odds with seriousness. As is often the case, leave it to the comic writer to best convey our tragic predicament.” —Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books
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