For Now by James Richardson

For Now

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Classic meets contemporary in James Richardson's ninth collection. Writers from Bashō to Hardy, from Merwin to Porchia, inspire meditations on everything from artichokes to cosmology that somehow morph into fables of limitation and desire. This "new poetry made the old way" takes seriously the task of lightening and illuminating our experience, and especially, of distilling it. As Richardson writes, "The road not taken also would have gotten me home." More than sixty poems of ten lines or fewer, and two sequences of Richardson's trademark aphorisms and "ten-second essays," are set alongside surging lyric meditations and odes. For Now celebrates nows of every length, from the sweep of cosmic evolution, to the span of a life, to the glint of dew on a cold shovel.
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556595790
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
86
Authors:
James Richardson
Published Date:
2020-06-09
Language:
English
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About James Richardson

A National Book Award finalist for By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), James Richardson was born in Bradenton, Florida, and raised in Oceanside, New York. His other books include Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays (Ausable Press, 2001) and During (Copper Canyon, 2016). Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms (Ausable Press, 2004) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He won the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers and is professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University.

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