During

James Richardson

National Book Award finalist James Richardson’s new collection—his eighth—is his darkest, brightest, and most moving. From its breathtaking invocation to its final whispered address, During is somber, witty, curious, and exhilarated. An extended meditation on the durability of happiness and beauty, During includes more of Richardson’s profound aphorisms alongside lyric poems that wonder at this unfailingly surprising world.

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ISBN: 9781556594335

Format: Paperback

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The world
is very small.
Inhale,
and the birds fall.

About the Author

James Richardson’s collections of poems, aphorisms, and ten-second essays include For Now; During, the winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America; By the Numbers, a National Book Award finalist; Interglacial, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Vectors. He is the winner of the Jackson Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry and a Presidential Teaching Award from Princeton University, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing. Richardson lives on a wooded hillside near Princeton with his …

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Reviews

“For James Richardson, poetry is serious and speculative play for both intellect and imagination… [He] makes familiar scenes strange enough to provoke new and startling insights.” —Judges’ citation, National Book Award, 2010

“James Richardson is… a poet who earned his reputation as a master of imagery and concision.” —Christian Science Monitor

“[O]ne of America’s most distinctive contemporary poets… a powerful and moving body of work that in its intimacy and philosophical naturalism is unique in contemporary American poetry.” —Boston Review

“James Richardson’s poetry is… unusual, quirky, personal, and profound.” —Threepenny Review