James Richardson is one of the finest poets now writing, and the best contemporary practitioner of the art of aphorism.---Publishers Weekly
-Not since the appearance of W. S. Merwin's translations and adaptations of aphorisms in Asian Figures, some thirty years ago, has an American poet managed to put down so much delightful and compelling wisdom.---American Literary Review
-No one theme or moral pervades these tesserae of specificity. Rather, Richardson's elegant compression invites the reader to fill in the blanks with personal experience......
James Richardson is one of the finest poets now writing, and the best contemporary practitioner of the art of aphorism.---Publishers Weekly
This book gathers under one roof poems from all of Richardson s earlier collections, a number of which are out of print: "Reservations" (1977), "Second Guesses" (1984), "As If"(1992), "A Suite for Lucretians" (1999), "How Things Are" (2000), and "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays" (2001), as well as a large selection of new poems and aphorisms.
A distillation of three decades of work, "Interglacial" will introduce this poet to a new generation of readers. Richardson fans will be pleased to discover early poems long out of print, and to see this poet s work in a larger, retrospective...
This book gathers under one roof poems from all of Richardson s earlier collections, a number of which are out of print: "Reservations" (1977), "Se...
