through the past thirty years, Ron ...

through the past thirty years, Ron Padgett has created a unique material part of poetry, prose piece of poetrys translations, and essays. By the late 1960 Padgett had begun to assimilate strategies from a combination of earlier French and American bards - in particular, the manic plain poems of Max Jacob, the Cubist precision of Pierre Reverdy the cafe conversation lines of Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as the feisty, urban immediacy of Frank O'Hara, and the veering into-themselves-disappearing narratives of Kenneth Koch (with whom Padgett studied at Columbia University).

For many years now, along