Title: How to be perfect /
Authors: Padgett, Ron, 1942-; Coffee House Press.
Publisher: Coffee House Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: American poetry
Contents: Mortal combat -- Rinso -- Tops -- The Swiss Family Robinson -- Blizzard cube -- Rialto -- I remember lost things -- Everybody and his uncle -- Toothbrush -- There was a man of Thessaly -- History lesson -- The question bus -- The nail -- Mir -- Why I would like to have been a twelfth-century Christian -- For Morris Golde -- Now at the Sahara -- How to be perfect -- Sea chantey -- Downstairs -- Nails -- It is almost unbearable -- Country room -- Jeopardy -- Sitting down somewhere else -- The art of the sonnet -- The alpinist -- Gothic red -- Charlie Chan wins again -- Thinking about the moon -- This for that -- Nelly -- Very post-impressionism -- The absolutely huge and incredible injustice in the world -- Afternoon -- All in white -- Dead or alive in Belgium -- Whiz and bang -- Standoff with Frosty -- A train for Kenneth -- In memoriam K. -- The Goldberg variations -- Mad scientist -- Hound dog -- Fantasy block -- Words from the front -- Pikakirjoitusvihko -- To the Russian poets -- Construction -- Why God did what he did -- The idea of being hurled at Key West -- Judy Holliday -- Method -- Bed -- The breakfast nook -- The stapler -- Different kinds of ink -- Sketch -- Aubade -- Do you like it? -- Drive -- Slight foxing -- Blink -- Bird's eye -- Now you see it -- Hercules -- Bible study -- Elegy for no one -- C note -- Bastille Day.