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Padgett's plainspoken, wry poems deliver their wisdom through a kind of connoisseurship of absurdity. He writes, "Everything I think about is a cartoon something / because anything cartoon is immortal / in its own funny little way." Yet these observational, reminiscent, and prescriptive verses are also informed by a sense of loss--not just for his late mother and for departed comrades like Kenneth Koch but for the bohemian ideal that ...