"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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
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University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
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