Rhyming "Treasures" of Ron Padgett

Abstract: (6 pp.) Padgett's poetry is rooted in popular culture. The poet says his own overt use of comic strip material: "I ascribe it to having grown up in a prospering, consumerist America in the 1940s and 1950s with parents who had just edged upward from poverty into the middle class and who very much enjoyed the entertainments and objects they could thus afford. My mother loved popular music and movies. She and I went to hundreds of movies together, movies of all kinds, and she was very nice about taking me to cartoon festivals. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

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Subcatagory: American Literature

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