has to his credit the books New & Selected Poems, Great Balls of Fire, The Straight Line: Writings on Poetry and Poets, and most recently Poems I Guess I Wrote. He is the editor-in-chief of a Scribner’s reference series entitled World Poets, and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters award for poetry. Padgett was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.