\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c/i\u003e (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) \u003ci\u003eAlone and Not Alone\u003c/i\u003e offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"The World of Us\":\u003c/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't go around all day\u003cbr\u003ethinking about life\u0026#8212;\u003cbr\u003edoing so will raise a barrier\u003cbr\u003ebetween you and its instants.\u003cbr\u003eYou need those instants\u003cbr\u003eso you can be in them,\u003cbr\u003eand I need you to be in them with me\u003cbr\u003efor I think the world of us\u003cbr\u003eand the mysterious barricades\u003cbr\u003ethat make it possible.\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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