Reservations: Poems by James Richardson

Reservations: Poems

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Reservations: Poems by James Richardson

Princeton University Press

Reservations: Poems

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"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a little tenderness. Like the protagonists of The Encyclopedia of Stones: A Pastoral, I am very slow, both unsettled and inspired by the vertiginous strangeness and speed of events. I suspect these melancholy and disembodied poems are attempts to arrest the moment long enough to say farewell, to let things go rather than be subject to their disappearance."

Originally published in 1977.

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Book Details
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
ISBN:
9780691616605
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
86
Authors:
James Richardson
Published Date:
2015-03-08
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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