Pink Dust

“Wonderful, generous, funny poetry.” —John Ashbery

“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

”[Padgett’s] poetry is masterful for its panoramic humanity and mind-stopping verbal wit, its breathtaking power and beauty. We want to stay with the person in these poems all day long.” —Anne Waldman

“Pink Dust is full of optimism and piercing humour…As always, Padgett’s sombre subjects are leavened with his trademark aversion to sanctimony and pretension; or, what one poem defines as our contemporary culture’s ‘small, sad pleasure / of being right’.” —Tim Keane, The Telegraph

“Pink Dust contains an ethical heart, a conviction of purpose filtered through these oddly contemplative jokes and musings. Within the jewel-boxes of these poems there is a strengthening liquor — some kindness, humor, and devotion that I certainly needed.” —Magda Andrews-Hoke, On the Seawall

Ron Padgett is a poet whose many honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters poetry award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. In addition to his memoirs of Joe Brainard, Dick Gallup, and Ted Berrigan, he has published book-length translations of the poetry of Apollinaire, Reverdy, and Cendrars. Padgett lives in New York City.

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