Alone and Not Alone

Alone and Not Alone

<div><p>Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's <i>Collected Poems</i> (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) <i>Alone and Not Alone</i> offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light.</P><p><b>From "The World of Us":</b></P><p><i>Don't go around all day<br>thinking about life—<br>doing so will raise a barrier<br>between you and its instants.<br>You need those instants<br>so you can be in them,<br>and I need you to be in them with me<br>for I think the world of us<br>and the mysterious barricades<br>that make it possible.</i></div>