<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></p></div>