Following Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett's 2013's _Collected Poems_ (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize) _Alone and Not Alone_ offers new poems that see the world in a clear and generous light. FROM "THE WORLD OF US":_Don't go around all day thinking about life— doing so will raise a barrier between you and its instants. You need those instants so you can be in them, and I need you to be in them with me for I think the world of us and the mysterious barricades that make it possible._