Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's Collected Poems (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) Alone and Not Alone offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light.

From "The World of Us":

Don't go around all day

thinking about life—

doing so will raise a barrier

between you and its instants.

You need those instants

so you can be in them,

and I need you to be in them with me

for I think the world of us

and the mysterious barricades

that make it possible.