For Now
Published on 9. June 2020
106 pages
978-1-61932-226-4 (ISBN)
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Classic meets contemporary in James Richardson's ninth collection. Writers from Basho to Hardy, from Merwin to Porchia, inspire meditations on everything from artichokes to cosmology that somehow morph into fables of limitation and desire. This "new poetry made the old way" takes seriously the task of lightening and illuminating our experience, and especially, of distilling it. As Richardson writes, "The road not taken also would have gotten me home." More than sixty poems of ten lines or fewer, and two sequences of Richardson's trademark aphorisms and "ten-second essays," are set alongside surging lyric meditations and odes. For Now celebrates nows of every length, from the sweep of cosmic evolution, to the span of a life, to the glint of dew on a cold shovel.
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James Richardson is the author of nine books of poetry and two critical studies. He is a National Book Award finalist and winner of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Paris Review, Yale Review, Great American Prose Poems, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Contents
- Overtures
- The Touch
- On the One Hand and on the Other
- Incredulous Essay on Hummingbirds
- Vectors 5.1-Otherwise: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
- For the Children
- What It's Like
- Dark night
- On your long
- Snow on my page
- From Up Here
- Now and Here
- Now
- Not an Artichoke
- Three thirty, four
- The car that lit our room
- Three thirty, four
- With a Grain of Salt
- Dawn, our neighbor's lights
- Moon still out
- Where lightning all night
- Essay Slightly in Advance of the Discovery of Element 120
- Just Now
- The Modern Poem of the Stars
- Trillions of stars
- Strange bar, no one knows
- Here
- It Was When
- Grid
- Out of the Rain
- I Remember Stopping on a Little Bridge in 1972
- Rain
- Through the rain
- It couldn't be
- On the Fly
- Flies at our dinner
- Astronomer
- Ode to the Paper Clip
- Parks Department
- Elemental
- Not the Ocean?
- (addresses in the manner of issa)
- Not a Bird
- Bird
- Pines
- Coming in late
- Ode to the World as a Cat
- Wanderer's Night Song (II)
- After the Seasons
- Even our winter
- Autumn Evening
- (way) after basho
- Vectors 5.2-PG-50: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
- So late, my lamp
- In my hands
- Small hours
- Epilogue in Stone
- When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang.
- After the Flood
- Notes
- About the Author
- Also by James Richardson
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special thanks
