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By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms

✍ Scribed by Richardson, James

Book ID
109574658
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
84 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781556593208

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✦ Synopsis

National Book Award Finalist
Book of the Year honors from Publishers Weekly
"As if hurled from a pitching mound, James Richardson's aphorisms and images approach the reader like fastballs, only to curve at the last second, painting the corners of the reader's mind with wisdom and delight. In By the Numbers Richardson dips into an expansive repertoire of approaches and shows excellent command, as he illuminates the commute between the ordinary and the mystical." β€”National Book Award finalist, Judges' Citation
β€œ[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." β€”Boston Review
β€œJames Richardson's Interglacial, a poetry finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is like a beautiful river, under the thin surface of which rushes an intensely felt life and a never quite lost...

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