Great balls of fire

Literature & Fiction

Padgett, Ron

Poetry

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry
 When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout with pleasure. In this vivid account, Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a valuable text for all those who care about freeing the creative imagination and educating the young.

Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry

KOCH, Kenneth

Harper-perennial

The work of participants in the Teachers and Writers Collaborative ranges from imaginative-writing incentives to projects involving the arts, communications media, ecology, and history and includes essays on creativity in the classroom

The Whole Word Catalogue 2 (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks)

Education & Teaching

Zavatsky, Bill

Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Schools & Teaching

Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry―from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor―offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now. Here, for the first time in English translation, is the complete poetry of a legendary twentieth-century French writer. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as well as his art. His adventures took him to Russia during the revolution of 1905 (where he traveled on the Trans-Siberian Railway), to New York in 1911, to the trenches of World War I (where he lost his right arm), to Brazil in the 1920s, to Hollywood in the 1930s, and back and forth across Europe. With Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob he was a pioneer of modernist literature, working alongside artist friends such as Chagall, Delaunay, Modigliani, and Léger, composers Eric Satie and Darius Milhaud, and filmmaker Abel Gance. The range of Cendrars's poetry―from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor―offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.

Complete Poems

CENDRARS, BLAISE

Bochner, Jay

University of California Press

Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixie Mafia. In "Oklahoma Tough," poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood "King of the Bootleggers." 
"Oklahoma Tough" is also a history of the distinctive mid-twentieth-century Oklahoma milieu that made Wayne Padgett’s life story possible. Ron Padgett brings this vanished world to life with candid and sometimes comic descriptions of criminal life. Particularly insightful and entertaining are interviews in which former bootleggers, family members, friends, and enemies speak openly about their lives. 
Combining biography, personal memories, and a history of the times, Ron Padgett bases his story on interviews with police officers and with those who knew Wayne Padgett, whether friend, foe, or family. He also bases it on newspapers and library, historical society, school, medical, and police records (Wayne Padgett’s FBI files run to 1300 pages), as well as on his own vivid memories of growing up with his charismatic criminal father. Twenty-one period photographs enhance the story of "Oklahoma Tough."

Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a high-ranking member of the outfit known as the Dixie Mafia. In Oklahoma Tough, poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood “King of the Bootleggers.” Oklahoma Tough is also a history of the distinctive mid-twentieth-century Oklahoma milieu that made Wayne Padgett’s life story possible. Ron Padgett brings this vanished world to life with candid and sometimes comic descriptions of criminal life. Particularly insightful and entertaining are interviews in which former bootleggers, family members, friends, and enemies speak openly about their lives.

University of Oklahoma Press

A refreshing approach to reading instruction stressing creativity rather than formal pedagogy and retaining the fresh excitement that reading can bring "before the life gets squeezed out." Poet and teacher Padgett defines "creative reading" and the principal methods of reading instruction in the US, discusses various reading errors and how to capitalize on them, and presents specific methods and exercises involving classic and modern literature, writing, listening, thinking, teaching, and learning. The guide is intentionally cheerful, infused with the poet's love of words...and the music of Spike Jones. Includes illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Creative Reading: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why

Natl Council of Teachers

Triangles in the afternoon: Poems

Poetry. Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. A member of the Tulsa School of Poets, he received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, the same year he won the Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright. Since 1969 he has been associated with Teachers & Writers Collaborative and numerous Poets in the Schools programs. In 1974-1976 he worked as a Writer in the Community in Lancaster, South Carolina. Since then he has directed the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York, which has been home base for him, his wife and son. His publications include "Great Balls of Fire," "Toujours l'amour," and "Triangles in the Afternoon" (poetry), "Bean Spasms," "The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron, " and "Antlers in the Treetops" (collaborations), as well as translations of Apollinaire, Duchamp, Cendrars and Larbaud. He is co-director of Full Court Press.

Tulsa kid

Z Press

Poetry. Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. A member of the Tulsa School of Poets, he received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, the same year he won the Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright. Since 1969 he has been associated with Teachers & Writers Collaborative and numerous Poets in the Schools programs. In 1974-1976 he worked as a Writer in the Community in Lancaster, South Carolina. Since then he has directed the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York, which has been home base for him, his wife and son. His publications include "Great Balls of Fire," "Toujours l'amour," and "Triangles in the Afternoon" (poetry), "Bean Spasms," "The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron, " and "Antlers in the Treetops" (collaborations), as well as translations of Apollinaire, Duchamp, Cendrars and Larbaud. He is co-director of Full Court Press.

Tulsa Kid

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Great balls of fire

Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry

The Whole Word Catalogue 2 (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks)

Complete Poems

Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers

Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers

Creative Reading: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why

Triangles in the afternoon: Poems

Tulsa kid

Tulsa Kid