"One of America's most distinctive contemporary poets."--"Boston
Review"
"James Richardson's poetry is . . . unusual, quirky, personal,
and profound."--"The Threepenny Review"
For James Richardson, poetry is serious and speculative play for
both intellect and imagination. "By the Numbers" is striking for
its range of line and movement, for its microlyrics,
crypto-quatrains, "ten-second essays," and the twist and snap of
aphorisms. Drawing from myriad fables--Ovidian, Shakespearean,
georgic, and scientific--Richardson makes familiar scenes strange
enough to provoke new and startling insights.
"Ten-second Essay #138"
"Faces are motion, which is why all the photos of you are bad.
Even the most natural-looking portrait is a sentence interrupted,
one note of an aria, held. Though faces themselves hide a deeper
motion. You seem to sit there and meet my eyes across the table,
but you are so many other places, clinging here for a moment
against all the currents that will soon sweep you onward. We are so
moved by the faces caught in the windows of trains going the other
way because they tell us how all faces really are."
James Richardson is the author of six books of poetry and two
critical studies. His poems appear frequently in "The New Yorker,"
Slate, and "Paris Review." He is a professor of English and
creative writing at Princeton University.
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