Ron Padgett : DICK: A Memoir of Dick Gallup

One of America’s finest poets also turns out to be one of our premier memoirists. With his remarkably engaging trio of portraits, Ted, Joe and now perhaps his best, Dick, Padgett provides a master class about how to convey the complexities of friendship. Insightful, humorous, anecdotally rich and ruefully honest, its sense of fair play, without pulling any punches, is astonishing and enviable. 

— Phillip Lopate

I read Dick with rapt fascination. It leaves me tongue-tied with respect.

— Peter Schjeldahl 

Poet Ron Padgett is the author of memoirs of Wayne Padgett (his father), Ted Berrigan, and Joe Brainard. Padgett’s How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, from whom he also received the Frost Medal. His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film, Paterson. New York City has been his home base since 1960. He was Dick Gallup’s friend for seventy-one years.

Dick was typeset in Albertina MT Pro and designed by Kyle Schlesinger at the Cuneiform Press. In addition to the trade paperback edition, there are twenty-six hardcover copies of this book lettered and signed by the author.

LIMITED EDITION: ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER lettered and signed by Padgett.

ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK. 5x8.5 inches. 242 pages. 2024 & 2026.
ISBN: 978-1-950055-15-9