James Richardson

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Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400870851
• Artikelnr.: 44175145

Autorenporträt

James F. Richardson is a Ph.D. cultural anthropologist who has studied American society for twenty years as a market research consultant. He has interviewed Americans in 40 different states and has lived all over the country, including New England, the Chicago-to-Madison corridor, Seattle, and Tucson, Arizona. For nearly three years in the late 1990s, he also lived in South India, studying a very different society than our own. Today, he lives with his wife, children, and dogs in sunny Tucson, Arizona, where he writes nonfiction and consults with a national client base. He also writes a Substack - Homo Imaginari - for a growing international readership.