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Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW
Ron Padgett's deceptively light poems muse on everyday items (English muffins; a toothbrush), exploring our desires and insecurities in How to be Perfect.
Sample Verse
''Hello, America. It is dawn / wake up and smell yourselves / You smell normal.''
Bottom Line
A few rare long poems on major themes (war; how to be perfect) demonstrate Padgett's ambition.
Posted Nov 09, 2007
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